#welfare-reform

#welfare-reform

a key refrain of her speech was that the increase in people receiving benefits for physical and mental conditions was unaffordable. It was, she said, particularly the case for low-level mental health issues such as ADHD. A lot of people don't know the scale of the problem, she said. A lot of people don't know how bad it is. Quite simply, our sickness benefit system was not designed to handle the age of diagnosis which we now live in.

By delivering a big, bold long-term plan, not a set of quick fixes, we will renew Britain. We must become again a serious people, with a serious government, capable together of doing difficult things to regain control of our future. By having a clear mission to renew our economy, our communities and our state we will deliver the change we promised and then be judged on it at the next election.

We are cleaning up the mess of Boris Johnson. The Boriswave will bankrupt us. Reform will deal with Boriswave, the biggest betrayal of voters' trust in modern times. Far too many that have come don't work, have never worked and never will work. The ability to bring dependents of all kinds, and when you realise that most that come are very low skilled, and on very low wages, you start to get a very, very different picture.

In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture to justify shutting down food programs and kicking mothers and their babies off public assistance. Those leaders, many of them self-described Christians, chose to ignore the majority of passages in the Bible that preached "good news" to the poor and promised freedom to those captive to injustice and oppression.

"We don't want to erase it, we don't want to abolish it," Merz said. "But we want to preserve the most important aspects of it, and that means we need to reform it."

In Britain and France, nationalist populist parties consistently lead in the polls, indicating a significant shift towards authoritarian and xenophobic political forces among voters.

Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour Party by Sir Keir Starmer alongside fellow MPs Rachael Maskell, Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff, and Neil Duncan-Jordan due to opposing welfare reforms affecting disabled people. Abbott's repeated comments deemed racist have led the Campaign Against Antisemitism to demand her expulsion from the Party, emphasizing that her views on antisemitism and race relations are damaging. They are also submitting a complaint regarding misleading BBC reporting on her letter.

A former new-age traveller who made his money in green energy and has donated to Just Stop Oil, he is part of the Patriotic Millionaires organisation who think it is high time people like them are asked to increase their contributions.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is facing pressure as her position has not been guaranteed by the Prime Minister, highlighting uncertainty about future tax policies and Budget plans.