School leavers will be banned from going straight on to the dole under Tory plans to ‘put the fair back in welfare’.
Kemi Badenoch has drawn up proposals to require jobless teenagers to undergo intensive work coaching instead of signing on immediately for Universal Credit.
In an interview with The Spectator magazine, Mrs Badenoch said it was time for a ‘tough-love’ approach towards a benefits system that was ‘unfair to the people who get up and go to work’.
The Tory leader also rounded on Andy Burnham, who made only a passing reference to the runaway welfare system in his conference speech this
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