"Is James Purnell the worst social security minister ever?" - Guardian Politics Blog

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" James Purnell was today branded the worst secretary of state in his department of all time.

Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, runs most of the old Department of Social Security and much of the old DHSS.

Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union made the claim because Purnell's workfare package will mean that the unemployed, disabled and single parents will have to work for £1.73 an hour to justify their benefits, a measure turned down by Margaret Thatcher's cabinet in 1985."

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