Liz Kendall will set out her department's role in Labour's plan to drive the UK employment rate to 80 per cent
Liz Kendall will set out her department's role in Labour's plan to drive the UK employment rate to 80 per centwill vow to “get Britain working” and tackle the “urgent challenge” of spiralling economic inactivity in her first speech as Work and Pensions Secretary on Tuesday.and implementing Universal Credit, neglecting other factors that determine whether people can work, such as health, skills, childcare and transport.
“They’ve been excluded, left out, categorised and labelled. Britain isn’t working. We need fundamental reform so the department for welfare becomes a genuine department for work. “The fundamental problem we face is that the current system of employment support is designed to address the problems of yesterday – not today, tomorrow and beyond.”
Ms Kendall is also expected to lay into the former Tory administration over the inheritance left to her and new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
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