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The shadow work and pensions secretary has attacked the government for allowing people to live in "workless ghettos".

Theresa May, in a speech to think tank Policy Exchange on Thursday, was set to claim that two million people have never kept a job.

The Tory frontbencher was also set to criticise a "benefits culture", which she says has seen three million people fail to find a job since 1997.

"These are people that have been hidden away by Labour for the past 10 years," she said.

"They have slowly built a wall between the working and the workless, hoping to keep their failures out of sight.

"Well let me spell them out. The reality is that under Labour there has been a steady growth in welfare ghettos – unemployment did not disappear during the 'boom years'.

"It was merely disguised, renamed, and hidden away in ever growing pockets of poverty."

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