"Kemi Promises to Revitalize UK Jobs, Criticizes PM for Favoring Benefits Claimants Over Workers"

SIR Keir Starmer has taken the side of benefit claimants over hard-working families, Kemi Badenoch blasts today.

In an exclusive chat with Sun columnist Clemmie Moodie she lets rip at the about shirkers “abusing the welfare system”.

And the Tory leader vows to “get Britain working again”.

At the to the highest level ever to .

Watch Clemmie’s brilliant interview with Kemi in full on our Politics YouTube channel

said: “Labour’s got no ideas about how to actually get the country working.

“My mission for next year is to get Britain working again.

“That’s what we want to see happen.

“There are people who are abusing the welfare system — welfare is there for the ­vulnerable, those who really need it, who can’t do anything else.

“There are people who can’t work and people who don’t want to work.”

Clemmie said Sun readers are fed up with funding the lifestyles of people sitting at home watching daytime TV and Kemi replied: “It’s true.

“This budget increased taxes on working people.”

She acknowledged the mistakes that led to the Tories being booted out of office — too much tax and and “not enough of a focus on delivering Conservative things” and said she is focusing on “making us a real again”.

Kemi and the Tories are now in second place in the polls behind .

Reform’s MP said welfare costs rose to over £300billion under Tory rule — almost a quarter of the UK’s annual budget — and added: “You can’t trust the Tories to fix the mess they created.”

A Labour spokesman said: “The Tories’ message on welfare is: we broke it, now put us back in charge.”

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