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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/we-didnt-do-enough-on-welfare.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has admitted the party did not do enough to reform the welfare system" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-we-didnt-do-enough-on-welfare.jpg" alt="Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has admitted the party did not do enough to reform the welfare system"/></a></p>
<p>Labour leader Ed Miliband has admitted the party did not do &#8220;enough&#8221; to reform the welfare system while it was in power.</p>
<p>Mr Miliband acknowledged there was &#8220;a minority&#8221; of people in many communities who were able to work but chose not to do so.</p>
<p>And he accepted that hard-working people were &#8220;hacked off&#8221; at seeing their neighbours live off benefits when they could be earning a living.</p>
<p>Labour has indicated it will support some of the welfare reforms proposed by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who wants to introduce a universal credit to replace the current complicated benefits system.</p>
<p>Mr Duncan Smith wants to break down a &#8220;culture of worklessness&#8221; which he believes has taken hold in some communities.</p>
<p>And Mr Miliband told the BBC: &#8220;There is a minority in many communities who can work and aren&#8217;t doing so and we need to act on that.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is a minority in my view but it hacks people off and I understand why it hacks people off because they say, &#8216;Look, I&#8217;m working all the hours God sends, I&#8217;m working 50 to 60 hours a week&#8230; and I&#8217;m struggling to make ends meet and I feel the person next door isn&#8217;t doing their bit.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked about Labour&#8217;s record on an issue which Tony Blair made a priority when he first arrived in office, Mr Miliband said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we did enough on welfare reform. I agree.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Miliband acknowledged he was not part of the &#8220;squeezed middle&#8221; who he has said Labour will champion. But he insisted he could still &#8220;listen to and understand&#8221; voters&#8217; aspirations and seek to make a difference to their lives.</p>
<p>&#8220;I come from a relatively privileged background. I am not going to pretend that I grew up in poverty,&#8221; said the Labour leader, whose father was the renowned Marxist academic Ralph Miliband.</p>
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