article_snippet: Theresa May, now Home Secretary, used a speech in 2002 to warn the Tories were seen as the 'nasty party' Skills minister Nick Boles criticised sanctions .
article_snippet: A Tory minister has sparked a row after claiming the government's benefits sanctions showed 'inhuman inflexibility'.
article_snippet: A Tory minister reportedly told a meeting organised by a charity in A Tory minister Grantham constituency that some of the sanctions cases A Tory minister heard about were a 'worry' and 'need to be looked at'.
article_snippet: A Tory minister was forced to rush out a clarification of A Tory minister views, insisting A Tory minister strongly supported the use of sanctions 'in principle and in practice'.
article_snippet: The Grantham Journal reported that Skills minister Nick Boles expressed Skills minister Nick Boles concerns during a visit to see the work of a charity involved in helping the poor and homeless.
article_snippet: Speaking to volunteers from Grantham Passage and Grantham Passage umbrella organisation, Grantham Poverty Concern, Skills minister Nick Boles said: 'With some of these cases it seems to Skills minister Nick Boles that there is an inhuman inflexibility that is imposed on some of these cases.'
article_snippet: Skills minister Nick Boles added: 'the government's benefits sanctions are a worry and do need to be looked at.'
article_snippet: Skills minister Nick Boles is said to have agreed to drop Skills minister Nick Boles cherished Big Society themes and National Citizen Service after advice from party strategists.
article_snippet: But Skills minister Nick Boles insists The project will 'bring an end to the something for nothing culture that trapped people for too long'.
highlights_snippet: Skills minister Nick Boles warns of 'inhuman inflexibility' of sanctions .