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2 weeks ago | 
mirror.co.uk | Ed Miliband |Liz Kendall
Clean energy is the jobs opportunity of the 21st century. And the government is determined to ensure our young people have the skills to seize it. For too long, our economy has failed to create enough of the good jobs with decent wages and strong trade unions supporting their rights that the British people rightly expect. Decades of decline have left nearly a million young people neither earning nor learning, trapped in a life without work with no opportunities to improve their lot .
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
attoday.co.uk | Sarah Sarsby |Liz Kendall
Unveiling major employment reforms, Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz Kendall, has published the ‘Get Britain Working White Paper’, marking the Labour Government’s first major intervention to achieve an ambitious 80 percent employment rate. According to the government, almost one and a half million people are unemployed, over nine million people are inactive, and a record 2.8 million people are out of work due to long-term sickness.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
mirror.co.uk | Liz Kendall
Our young people deserve the best start in life. But almost one million are now not in work, education or training. That's a shocking 1 in 8 of all our young people. The result is talent wasted, opportunity missed, and life chances stalled. It's also holding businesses and our economy back. What happens when you're young can have a big impact on the rest of your life.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
msn.com | Liz Kendall
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Liz Kendall
Our country’s best asset is its people. But Britain’s talent is languishing in villages, towns and cities across the country. Recent figures show three million households with no one in work, and 300,000 households where no one has ever worked – that’s the equivalent of a city the size of Leeds.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thiis.co.uk | Liane McIvor |Liz Kendall |Wes Streeting
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall and Health and Social Secretary Wes Streeting met with people helping to deliver a life-changing employment support service at a North London medical centre this week. The Work & Pensions and Health Secretaries met people on Wednesday who have been supported by WorkWell to return to or remain in work by helping them to manage their physical or mental wellbeing in the workplace.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Liz Kendall
Application pathway for various benefits Credit: Peter Dazeley/Getty We have inherited a welfare system that loses £10bn a year to fraud and error. Since the pandemic alone, £35bn has been lost. It’s utterly unacceptable. But under Labour, this Government will be tough on fraud – so the public’s money goes to those who need it most, not to those refusing to play by the rules. We said we’d be careful with the public’s money, and that’s what we’ll do – unlike the Tories who handed out dodgy PPE...
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
inkl.com | Liz Kendall
PA WirePensioners do not believe the Tories when they say they are going to raise the tax thresholds, Labour frontbencher Liz Kendall said, as she branded the party’s promises “a joke”. The shadow pensions secretary said the number of over-65s paying income tax has almost doubled under the Conservatives, rising from 4.5 million in 2009/10 to 8.5 million in 2023/24. During a visit to Essex on Thursday, Ms Kendall claimed the Conservatives have worsened the quality of retirement.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
labourlist.org | Liz Kendall
This is a copy of Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions’ Liz Kendall’s speech as written (rather than delivered) for an event at the think tank Demos on Monday. This week the Tories’ seventh Chancellor gives his second budget; the last before the general election. Speculation swirls about what Jeremy Hunt will say and whether it will appease his divided, chaotic party. But whatever Mr Hunt announces, it won’t make up for 14 years of economic failure under this Conservative government.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
inkl.com | Liz Kendall
She told delegates “real opportunities” will be matched by “the responsibility to take them up”, suggesting a Labour government could change the welfare system. Last week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt reiterated the Government’s commitment to make benefits sanctions harsher. Ms Kendall said “Britain isn’t working”, with more than two million people shut out of the workplace because of sickness or disability but wanting to work. She added: “Under Labour, this will change.
