Liz Kendall and Trevor Phillips on Sky News.Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall clashed with Trevor Phillips after he accused her of not telling the full story about the government’s benefits crackdown.The government wants to reduce the number of people on welfare, which has soared since the pandemic after millions of working age people failed to re-enter the jobs market.On Sky News this morning, Phillips grew frustrated as Kendall tried to set out how she plans to incentivise benefit claimants to go back to work.He said: “You keep describing the problem and also telling me about the great opportunities. What you’re not telling me is what happens when someone says they’ve decided not to take those opportunity.”Kendall, who pointed out that one in eight young people are not in education, work or training, said: “We will provide those opportunities for those young people to be earning or learning because it is a disaster if you don’t have basic skills.”Phillips then told the minister: “I’m hearing the carrot, but I’m not hearing the stick.”Kendall replied: “Let me finish. If you let me finish, I will say it. “You will have to take that up. There will be conditions because w
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