Badenoch lays out £36bn Tory welfare cut plan and defends slashing disability benefits – UK politics live

Conservative leader insists ‘double amputees run marathons’ as she launches Welfare That Works policy document Good morning. It is quite easy for politicians to declare that they will cut the welfare bill by X amount – but much harder when they have to explain exactly who will lose out. This is summed up by a good anecdote about a former chancellor (Ken Clarke, according to some versions, but it could have been any of them), who gave this reply when asked for cuts that would save £1bn: So, do