Iain Duncan Smith has launched a scathing attack on Labour's 'politics of hate and envy' and claimed the Conservatives are 'the real party of work'. The Work and Pensions Secretary said Ed Miliband was standing on 'the most Left-wing platform since Michael Foot' and was 'peddling lies' about the Government's record. In an interview with the Daily Mail, the former Conservative leader set out a powerful moral case for the party's policies, which have reduced welfare dependency and got two million more into work. Scroll down for video . Urging action: Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, left, called on fellow Tories to 'bang the drum' in the next fortnight to champion the Government's achievements. Right, Labour leader Ed Miliband . 'Labour doesn't understand work. They don't understand the importance of work in a cultural, social and health sense,' he said. 'Instead they're saying "here are the people we hate". They hate people who get up early in the morning and work to get a business off the ground, they hate people who take risks, hate people that earn money, hate people that create jobs. 'They are reinventing the politics of envy. It's alive and well. Labour is picking enemies. It's the politics of fear. It isn't a message of hope.' Mr Duncan Smith called on fellow Tories to 'bang the drum' in the next fortnight to champion the Government's achievements – and persuade voters that Britain's best days lie ahead if it sticks to its current economic course. Hailing the 'staggering' increase in employment, now at a record high, he insisted: 'There are more disabled people in work than under Labour, the proportion of people in social housing who have a job is higher than it has been since records began. 'All these people that have gone back into work are lives saved in my book. Success: The Work and Pensions Secretary  hailed the 'staggering' increase in employment, now at a record high. Above, Prime Minister David Cameron on the campaign trail in Horstforth, Yorkshire today . 'Everything I have done – the cap on benefits, the work experience for young kids, changes to sickness benefits – we really do care about people. 'Labour thinks welfare and work are two sides of the same coin. They are not. We want to catch people when they fall, but we must get them to rise out of welfare dependency.' The Work and Pensions Secretary said Labour had made a 'staggering misjudgement' when it claimed the Government's austerity measures would put one million people out of work. 'They have been out by a factor of three million. In fact there are two million more in work,' he said. 'We know Ed Miliband and Ed Balls were party to the government that misjudged the public finances so dramatically, despite all the warnings that we were running a deficit that was too high. 'Not only did they not fix the roof when the sun was shining, they smashed the tiles off. 'That meant when the crisis came we were least prepared. It became what was actually for the UK the worst depression since at least the 1920s. 'Not only can they not run an economy, they can't even forecast anything correctly. Every proposal they have made as an opposition has been a joke. Every solution involves looking to the past and the state spending more money. 'They have never understood why they were wrong. They have learned nothing - absolutely nothing - since the financial crisis. 'That's why every Labour government leaves office with unemployment higher than when they came into power. 'They think governments create jobs. They don't. The government can set the conditions by which businesses can thrive: lower taxes, less regulation, give entrepreneurs a reason to stay in the UK and create jobs here. Defence: The former Conservative leader, pictured on Good Morning Britain last week, set out a powerful moral case for the party's policies, which have reduced welfare dependency and got two million more into work . 'What Labour does is start to force up taxes, spend far too much, lose control of the public finances. 'The economy suffers, people lose their jobs and the lowest-paid bear the brunt.' Mr Duncan Smith claimed that having lost the argument on jobs, Labour was now deliberately misleading people about the nature of the employment created, suggesting it is mainly part-time and low-paid. 'They peddle lies about the jobs. Actually 80 per cent are full-time, 60 per cent are managerial level jobs. 60 to 70 per cent are going to British-born citizens, compared to the 90 per cent of jobs that were going to foreign nationals under Labour,' he said. 'These aren't my figures - they're official Offical for National Statistics figures. Yet Labour rattles its chains like a character from Dickens and says everything is dreadful. 'Now people have been really hurt by the Great Recession that Labour oversaw. We can't expect people to run round and say "hooray" when we have started to turn things around. 'Their faith in the political system has been damaged. After all, Labour promised they'd ended boom and bust. 'But we've stuck to our guns and people are starting to feel the pound in their pocket. We have incomes rising at two per cent in the private sector. Things like fuel, heating and food prices have been falling. 'The greatest risk we face is that the job is not completed. Labour is peddling this myth that somehow we can start spending more money that we haven't got.' He said Labour was also seeking to mislead voters about the future of the NHS, though they have not matched the Tories' pledge to give it £8billion a year in extra funding. 'They set out to scare people - to believe something nasty is happening. Take the NHS - they say the Conservatives are going to damage or destroy the NHS. It is an appalling lie,' he said. The Work and Pensions Secretary warned that a Labour government 'would be a prisoner to two groups - not just the SNP, but also their own backbenchers'. 'The vast majority of Labour MPs do not believe in any element of deficit reduction. They think we should tax people on any more than average earnings and they want welfare payments to increase dramatically.,' he said. Mr Duncan Smith warned Labour would halt his programme to replace all out-of-work benefits and tax credits with a new universal credit, which ensures it always pays more to take a job or more hours than remain on benefits. He also revealed that the new benefit will be denied to EU immigrants to deter low-paid incomers. Mr Duncan Smith said he wanted immigrants to wait for four years before they qualified, and had already opened talks with the EU Commission on introducing the lengthy time line.
Work and Pensions Secretary hailed the Tories as 'the real party of work' Said Miliband is standing on 'most Left-wing platform since Michael Foot' Urged fellow Conservatives to champion the Government's achievements .