Labour is anxious to reduce the rising welfare bill as it plans boosting defence spending at a time when the Chancellor is ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said the Government’s “basic proposition” is that virtually no one should claim benefits without looking ...

Liz Kendall also declared that too many youngsters ... owing to long-term sickness and mental health conditions. The figure has surged by 60,000 (26 per cent) in the past year alone, the ...

Writing exclusively for the Sunday Mirror, Work and Pensions Secretary Kendall said the vital safety net should be helping ...

The work and pensions minister says the welfare system needs reforming to encourage young people to work if they can.

Too many young people see the world of work as stressful, Liz Kendall has said, as she accused some benefit claimants of “taking the mickey”. In her strongest comments yet on welfare ...

Some people on benefits are "taking the mickey", Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has said ... from the year before the pandemic. That figure is forecast to increase to around £100bn ...

Previous plans had put the figure at £3 billion – but it may now be much more, it is feared. Liz Kendall is understood to be pushing for more funding for initiatives on back-to-work programmes ...