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Responding to Liz Kendall’s speech on welfare reform, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:
“It is difficult to take the government’s claim that it wants to get people back to work seriously given its relentless assault on British businesses and taxpayers.
“Liz Kendall talks about giving benefits claimants the right to try work, yet her colleagues are effectively banning companies from the right to try new employees through the employment rights bill. This is on top of the crippling hike in the jobs tax which will particularly increase the cost of hiring part-time staff.
“The work and pensions secretary needs to convince her cabinet colleagues to cease their attacks on the private sector, otherwise her ambition to increase employment and cut the benefits bill will be dead on arrival.”
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