“I am determined that a Labour government I hope to lead will smash austerity, will end austerity. He denied the idea ever having been raised in Corbyn’s cabinet when he was shadow secretary for work and pensions. He launched the Institute of Employment Rights Manifesto for Labour Law on 28 June, which included a policy to reinstate the Ministry of Labour. Labour leadership contender Owen Smith has made a raft of concrete new pledges in a radical pitch to the left of the party, including scrapping the Department for Work and Pensions, which he said had become “a byword for cruelty and insecurity”. We will make an unbreakable promise to the British people to guarantee a better future,” he said.

Source: The Guardian July 27, 2016 13:08 UTC