article_snippet.sent: chief Iain Duncan Smith questioned the numbers, which chief Iain Duncan Smith said were ‘unverified’, and insisted that the best way to help families was to get people into work.
article_snippet.sent: This tells us that the Government has done grave damage to the welfare safety net.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Vicious sanctions and benefit cuts
article_snippet.sent: even for those who paid in all those who paid in all their working lives – working lives – are destroying the support any of us might need if us lose us job or have an accident.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Duncan Smith added: ‘We are not going to take lectures from the party who presided over the deepest recession in living memory – whose incompetent economic policies hit the poorest harder than anyone.
article_snippet.sent: The best way to help families provide for families is cut taxes and to get more people into work – and we’ve got a strong record there: two million more people in work since the last election.
article_snippet.sent: It is only by continuing with our term economic plan that will we ensure more people have a job and the economic security that comes with a job.’
highlights_snippet.sent: Tories said getting people working was better than providing hand-outs .