Clegg hits back at church criticism Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has defended the coalition's welfare reforms in the face of the latest onslaught from the church, insisting it was right to withdraw benefits from claimants who refused to look for work.

The Liberal Democrat leader rejected made claims by Anglican bishops and other faith leaders that the Government was taking a "punitive" approach to welfare claimants. And he accused the leader of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, of exaggerating the extent to which people had been hit by the changes.

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