"The Tories let welfare bills, civil service numbers and asylum hotel use skyrocket on their watch - and they've never apologised. Now they want to rehash failed promises from their failed manifesto to try to solve the problems they caused. This is the same old Tories, with the same old policies. They didn't work then and you can't trust them now."
"We will deliver 23 billion in savings by reforming non-pensioner welfare through: -Restricting welfare to UK citizens -Reforming sickness and disability benefits by ending access for lower-level mental health conditions and making greater use of face-to-face assessment -Reforming housing benefit -Reviewing the rates and exemptions from the Household Benefit Cap -Limiting the VAT subsidy for Motability -Reforming job-seeking obligations -Retaining the two-child benefit cap"
"Kent's local authority is likely to raise council tax rates next year as Reform UK has struggled to find big savings under an Elon Musk-inspired cost-cutting drive. Kent was one of 10 English councils that Nigel Farage's rightwing populist party seized in a swat"
Labour rejected Conservative proposals to cut government spending as not credible, citing a record of rising welfare bills, increased civil service numbers and greater use of asylum hotels without apology. The Conservatives set out plans to deliver £23 billion of savings by reforming non-pensioner welfare, proposing restrictions to UK citizens, tighter sickness and disability assessments, housing benefit reforms, reviews of the Household Benefit Cap, limiting the Motability VAT subsidy, reforming job-seeking obligations and retaining the two-child benefit cap. Reform UK councillors in 10 English councils, led by Nigel Farage, struggled to find deep savings under an Elon Musk-inspired cost-cutting drive, prompting likely council tax rises in Kent.
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