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Ahead of Tuesday’s Commons vote on benefits<\/a> uprating, the Conservatives have launched an in-your-face poster campaign across London.<\/p>\n

Grant Shapps, the Conservative chairman told The Independen<\/em>t: “The benefits system<\/a> has needed attention for a long time. The last Labour government spent billions on welfare, but their approach lacked results.<\/p>\n

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The poster is being displayed at six locations across London<\/strong><\/p>\n

“During that administration, welfare spending increased by 60 per cent, but that increase was never reflected in the number of people getting back to work.<\/p>\n

“In fact there were half a million more unemployed people by the time Labour left office, compared to when Blair was elected.”<\/p>\n

Labour however, contend that those who will be punished by capping benefits<\/a> at 1% until 2014 will be soldiers, nurses and teachers, not the “shirkers” the coalition is saying the move targets.<\/p>\n

Ed Miliband<\/a> told Channel 4 News: “What we’re voting for is a fairer way forward … the idea that at a time when you’re cutting taxes<\/a> for the richest in society, that you penalise the most vulnerable in society and those going out to work – those people doing the right thing, the strivers that Mr Cameron says he stands for – it doesn’t add up.<\/p>\n

“It’s the wrong thing to do and the Labour party is taking absolutely the right decision.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ahead of Tuesday’s Commons vote on benefits uprating, the Conservatives have launched an in-your-face poster campaign across London.
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