Reform pledges £50bn savings in ‘generational’ benefits shake-up

Robert Jenrick takes aim at disabled people and foreign nationals after saying UK guilty of ‘suicidal empathy’ Reform UK has been accused of excluding the most vulnerable from society and punishing non-Britons living in the UK as it prepared to outline £50bn of cuts to benefits…

Reform UK has pledged the biggest benefits overhaul “in a generation,” unveiling plans to cut £50bn per year from the welfare bill. Robert Jenrick, the party’s treasury spokesman, said the proposals would see nearly 3m people have their disability and sickness payments withdrawn…