Stride: “Work is the best route out of poverty”

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Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride said “the best way for people to come out of poverty is through work,” arguing that employment growth and welfare reform are key to improving living standards. He highlighted that the previous Conservative government created four million jobs after 2010 and said controlling welfare spending would allow taxes to be cut, the economy to grow and more higher-paid jobs to be created.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The best way for people to come out of poverty is through work and we

00:04demonstrated when we were in government when we did see falls in the number of

00:07people in absolute poverty after housing costs including children that

00:13does work and we actually had four million more jobs as a result of the

00:18last Conservative government than when we came into office in 2010 so that is

00:23the way to do it and part of that story of course is getting the welfare budget

00:27under control so you can cut taxes grow the economy and generate those higher

00:32paying jobs that allow people to come out of poverty or not be in poverty in the

00:36first place

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