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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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George Thompson

Long-term benefits claimants to work or face being stripped of cash: Reform UK

Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

Long-term benefits claimants will be made to clean up their local high street or face being stripped of their benefits under new plans unveiled by Reform UK.

The party’s Treasury spokesperson, Robert Jenrick, said the policy would be part of a series of changes to welfare and benefits under a Reform government that would stop some claimants “taking everyone else for mugs”.

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