'It was a confident performance' | Benefits speech analysed | LBC
March 18, 2025
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as posted by the channelWork and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall laid out moves to save around £5 billion amid fears spiralling costs on benefits are 'unsustainable', telling MPs the current system is 'holding the country back.'
Andrew Marr provides Shelagh Fogarty with his analysis ahead of his interview with Liz Kendall on LBC from 6pm on Tuesday night.
Labour MP Clive Lewis said the Government’s welfare reforms are set to cause “pain and difficulty” for millions of Britons, warning voters will not believe that “this is the kind of action that a Labour government takes”.
Former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell has argued the welfare cuts would result in “immense suffering”.
He asked the Work and Pensions Secretary in the House of Commons: "The reality is, trying to find up to £5 billion worth of cuts by manipulating, by changing the PIP rules, the criteria, will result in immense suffering, and we’ve seen it in the past, loss of life.
"So what monitoring, independent monitoring, will take place that will be reported to this House, and what threshold of suffering will it take to take an alternative route to supporting disabled people?”
It comes after Ms Kendal vowed to bring in a permanent above inflation rise to the standard allowance in universal credit for the first time ever; a £775 annual increase in cash terms by 2029/30 and a decisive step to tackle the perverse incentives in the system."
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