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Labour calls for Iain Duncan Smith to be sacked over unemployment failures. Iain Duncan Smith should be sacked as Work and Pensions Secretary for presiding over "the worst failure of any Government department for years", Labour said today.
Liam Byrne, Labour's shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said four key initiatives to help the unemployed are failing.
He said the Prime Minister should "invite Mr Duncan Smith to spend more time with his novels" in the next reshuffle, which is expected after the MPs' summer break.
In an article for Telegraph.co.uk, Mr Byrne first criticised the Work Programme, a scheme that pays companies to help find jobs for the unemployed.
Figures show that it is "worse than doing nothing," according to the Labour frontbencher.
He said the Youth Contract, designed to help young people gets jobs, is set to miss its targets by 90 per cent, while the Universal Credit benefit reforms are behind schedule and heading for "disaster".
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