🚨 NEW: The Government is considering each of the following in a 'radical overhaul' of the benefits system - Stricter eligibility for Personal Independence Payments (PIP), particularly for mental health conditions like anxiety and depression - Requring claimants to provide routine medical evidence instead of an assessment for PIP - Requring the long-term sick to look for work with a reduction in sickness benefit payments to encourage this - Abolishing the 'Limited Capability for Work or Work-Related Activity' (LCWRA) category, potentially cutting £5,000 per year for claimants - Scrapping the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) and aligning with PIP assessments - Shifting from regular PIP payments to one-off payments or means-testing - Introducing a 'duty to engage' with employment services, including job preparation and training Vouchers for specific equipment or aids instead of cash payments have been ruled out [@thetimes]

This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety. It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge. In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he has 'the balls' to reduce Britain's benefits bill, despite opposition from Labour MPs “We will be ruthless with cuts if that’s what’s necessary" [@MrHarryCole]

I'm a good friend of Ben Judah, so I am of course biased. But that doesn't make this attempted character assassination any less shoddy.