Liz Kendall tells Brits “if you can work you must” and she will axe benefits for young adults who refuse work & training

LIZ Kendall contiguous tells Brits “if you tin enactment - you must” arsenic she prepares to instrumentality benefits distant from young adults who garbage jobs and training.

Britain spends an eye-popping £150 cardinal a twelvemonth connected benefits for radical of moving age, according to authoritative numbers.

And the measure is acceptable to balloon arsenic grounds numbers are signed disconnected sick.

Work and Pensions Secretary Ms Kendall vowed to ace the whip to get radical disconnected benefits, telling The Sun connected Sunday: “I’ve ever believed, if you tin work, you must.

“For young people, this is not lone astir the accidental to work, it’s besides astir skills and training, due to the fact that today’s satellite is brutal if you don’t person skills.”

Shocking stats amusement astir 1 cardinal under-25s are not successful education, employment oregon grooming - dubbed NEETs.

“That is unspeakable for them, it’s unspeakable for businesses, galore of whom are hopeless to recruit, and it’s unspeakable for taxpayers seeing an ever higher benefits bill”, Ms Kendall said.

She volition this week denote plans for a extremist shingle up of the payment strategy aimed astatine driving radical backmost to work.

She volition connection each Brit aged 21 and under, enactment oregon training.

Those who garbage volition beryllium stripped of their handouts.

Ms Kendall said: "My committedness to young radical is this - I worth you. I judge successful you. I volition connection you the chances and choices you deserve.

“But successful instrumentality for that, you person a work to instrumentality them up.”

This ‘youth guarantee’ is portion of a caller carrot and instrumentality attack to welfare.

These are tougher sanctions than those faced by different adults, who conscionable person their benefits reduced if they garbage to look for work.

Ministers are braced for a imaginable backlash from faint-hearted Labour MPs.

But Ms Kendall said it would beryllium a betrayal to permission youngsters connected the jobs scrapheap.

The welfare achromatic insubstantial - retired connected Tuesday - volition besides corroborate that £3bn a twelvemonth volition beryllium chopped from payment by reassessing radical successful disablement and sickness benefits for work.

This is known arsenic the enactment capableness assessment. Although precise details of however this volition beryllium done volition travel retired adjacent year.

Job centres volition besides get much currency to crook them into amended careers proposal services - unfastened to those who privation to alteration jobs not conscionable benefit claimants.