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Overhaul: Iain Duncan Smith, pictured arriving at No10, said Britain’s welfare system is ‘bust’

– Work or lose your benefits: Iain Duncan Smith heralds biggest shake-up of welfare state since the war (Daily Mail):

Britain’s welfare system is ‘bust’ and faces its most radical overhaul for 60 years to undo Labour’s legacy of benefit dependency, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith declared today.
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Giving his first newspaper interview since making an extraordinary return to the political frontline, Mr Duncan Smith told the Daily Mail the unemployed should do community work to keep benefits.

Those who refused to look for work, take jobs that were offered to them or do voluntary work would have their handouts stopped, he said.

Mr Duncan Smith said it was simply not ‘sustainable’ for Britain to carry on spending almost 14 per cent of its national income on welfare.
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A Government report revealed that 1.4million people in the UK have been on an out-of-work benefit for nine or more of the past ten years.

It shows income inequality in the UK is at its highest level since comparable statistics began in 1961, and a higher proportion of children are growing up in workless households in the UK than in any other EU country.