The reforms to the benefit system are “difficult decisions, but it is the right thing to do”, Downing Street has said.
Asked what the government’s message was to people who would be left worse off by the changes, a No 10 spokesman said the government believed that there was “currently a broken social security system which is holding people and our country back”.
When put to him that the benefit bill would stand at £70 billion a year even once the reforms are made, he replied: “No one’s pretending that this isn’t a significant issue. This situation is not just bad for the economy, it’s bad for people too; it’s a two-pronged issue.”
Asked if Sir Keir Starmer believed it was morally right to reform
