Kemi Badenoch arrived at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham pledging to shave £13billion from the welfare bill by axing disability benefits for conditions such as ADHD.
Ms Badenoch told The Mail on Sunday that ‘mild anxiety, ADHD or routine back pain do not mean you cannot work’, as she vowed to end ‘cash handouts that leave people trapped in a cycle of worklessness’.
The Tories intend to make their plans to tackle the eye-watering £333billion annual cost of the social security and welfare system a key dividing line with Andy Burnham’s Labour, as Westminster prepares for a possible snap election in
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