If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

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