Jeremy Hunt clashes with Good Morning Britain host in fiery interview from Tory Party conference

Jeremy Hunt accused of being a crowdpleaser in fiery Good Morning Britain interviewSource: Good Morning Britain, ITV

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00:00 You're simply re-announcing a policy that is already in place

00:05 because you think it's a crowd pleaser.

00:07 And people will fall for it, thinking it's a fantastic new policy.

00:11 You're cracking down on those not looking for work.

00:14 Susanna, if you're saying this is just re-announcing something,

00:18 that is just wrong.

00:19 Let me say that plain and simple.

00:23 We do, you're absolutely right, have the legal framework

00:27 to impose those sanctions.

00:30 The question is whether that actually happens.

00:33 And at the moment, as I said to you in my earlier answer,

00:36 on the whole, sanctions are only imposed

00:40 when people don't comply with the process.

00:42 All right, but just to establish it's something that already happens,

00:46 you just think it's not working properly,

00:49 which sounds like a problem with your process,

00:52 rather than introducing a new policy.

00:55 You've just admitted the process doesn't work.

00:58 No.

01:00 Susanna, we're not really getting anywhere.

01:02 You're trying to say I'm re-announcing something. I'm not.

01:05 I'm saying we are looking at changes to the way sanctions are applied

01:09 in order to make sure that they are doing the job they need to do,

01:14 which is to create the right incentives

01:17 so that we don't have 300,000 people out of work

01:21 without any sickness or disability for more than a year,

01:24 Because I think that's wrong.