article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron this morning launched a furious attack on Labour MPs 'bleating' about poverty after it emerged more than a million people turned to food banks last year.
article_snippet.sent: Prime Minister said Labour had left millions of people trapped on welfare in a system which 'punished the poor'.
article_snippet.sent: Prime Minister, delivering a major speech on the economy in Bedford today, said Labour had left millions of people trapped on welfare in a system which 'punished the poor' Mr Cameron, in a major speech on the economy this morning, said the Tories were overhauling the benefit system, increasing the minimum wage and providing more free child care to help parents get to work.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Prime Minister said Labour had left a system where a single mum, working 15 hours and earning £87 a week, would have actually lost money if Labour had taken on any more work.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron said families stuck on benefits were not ‘playing the benefit system’ but were ‘victims of the benefit system’.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron said families stuck on benefits were ‘victims of a welfare trap laid by Labour, paid for by hardworking taxpayers’.
article_snippet.sent: Welfare was meant to be a safety net – not a web from which no-one could escape.
article_snippet.sent: It was you who trapped the poor on welfare and widened inequality.
article_snippet.sent: Yes, you Ed Miliband and Ed Balls who designed these systems that punished the lowest paid.
article_snippet.sent: So don’t you dare lecture us on poverty.
article_snippet.sent: the true party of working people in Britain today is us, the Conservative Party.
article_snippet.sent: For many second earners, work didn’t pay because the cost of childcare was so high.
highlights_snippet.sent: Prime Minister said Labour had left millions of people trapped on welfare .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron said Mr Cameron wanted to 'make hard work pay' unlike Labour .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron said that work rather than benefits is the best way to avoid poverty .
  