Just 6.9% of people on benefits moved from welfare into work each month on average between January and September 2025, according to figures from the Department and Work and Pensions. The lowest rate in seven years…
At the same time, a whopping 4.2 million people were on Universal Credit with no requirement to work as of December. A reminder that the OBR forecasts the welfare bill will balloon by £73.2 billion to £406.2 billion over the next five years under Labour…
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Helen Whately said:
“This hasn’t just happened by chance under Labour’s watch. It’s an inevitable consequence of their decisions in Government. They’ve put taxes up on jobs and piled red tape onto businesses, so they’re not hiring. Getting off benefits has got harder and the welfare trap is deeper.”
Remember when Starmer promised to “get Britain working”…
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”