KEIR: WE'LL GET 135,000 SCOTS BACK TO WORK

KEIR Starmer has unveiled plans to get 135,000 jobless Scots back to work.

- ANDREW QUINN

His Government revealed the extent of worklessness among those classed "economically inactive" across the UK in the House of Commons yesterday.

Labour Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said those who "can work, must work" as she set out an overhaul of the welfare system aimed at getting people back to work after suffering from long-term illness.

She warned the benefits bill for sickness and disability is set to rise "by £26billion by the end of this Parliament".

Kendall claimed the Tories had failed to create "good jobs in every part of the country, to deliver on the NHS and to properly reform welfare".