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It’s time to end blame culture over benefits bill, says Labour minister

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Liz Kendall tells the Observer that a drastic overhaul is needed to fix a broken’ back-to-work system.

She warns that the number of people who are economically inactive is bigger than the population of London .

She accuses Tory politicians of using anti-welfare rhetoric against people in need of help.

Leicester West MP committed to a review of universal credit and youth guarantee.

More details of her plans will be unveiled in a white paper in the autumn.

Kendall would not be drawn on whether she was pushing for the Treasury to end the two -child limit on benefits.

But she said that the government’s child poverty taskforce had met for the first time last week .

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informal

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English

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40

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