Treasury minister in charge of welfare changes made comments in 2013

The Treasury minister responsible for welfare changes wrote a paper saying universal credit claimants should be forced to “work for the dole” on tasks such as cleaning up graffiti or face losing all of their support.

Chris Philp, who as chief secretary to the Treasury is in charge of public spending, made the comments in a 2013 paper for the TaxPayers’ Alliance.

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