Reform dramatically upped the ante on welfare today by pledging to slash £50billion from the annual bill.
Robert Jenrick effectively challenged the Tories and Labour as he declared that three million people should have disability and sickness payments cut or removed.
He pointed out that since 2002 the share of working age people claiming for mental health and behavioural issues had tripled.
The system now amounted to ‘suicidal empathy’, and was dooming huge numbers to a life of dependence, the Treasury spokesman said.
Focus has been intensifying on the benefits system as the Government struggles to balance the books and stem a spike in
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