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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Hughes

Badenoch pledges to ‘draw a line’ on which health issues get welfare support

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech at Glaziers Hall in central London (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Conservatives will “draw a line” on which health issues the state treats as disabilities in a bid to cut the UK’s benefits bill, Kemi Badenoch has said.

The Tory leader said her party would carry out a “full review” of which conditions qualify a person for welfare support as part of plans to “get Britain working again”.

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