Balls Attacks IDS On Jobs Policy

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Labour Leadership contender Ed Balls has roundly criticised Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith for suggesting that the unemployed should be prepared to move home in order to find work.

On the surface, this idea is not bad in itself. Many people do move to wherever a job takes them. But as Mr Balls says, the coalition has already cut millions of pounds from funding for the jobless.  He is absolutely right to accuse the Tories and the Liberal Democrats of taking money away from the poorer regions whose economies need regeneration; a move which will, in turn, only serve to slow the overall economic recovery, if not take Britain back in recession.

By encouraging people to move to more prosperous areas where the jobs are more likely to be, that is exactly what the Conservative-Liberal coalition are doing.