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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

Starmer says ‘bulging benefits bill’ is ‘blighting our society’

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said there is a ‘bulging benefits bill blighting Britain’ (PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer has promised sweeping changes to crack down on what he described as the “bulging benefits bill blighting our society”.

The Prime Minister used an op-ed in the Mail on Sunday to vow to “get to grips” with the cost of welfare after figures suggested more than four million people will be claiming long-term sickness support by the end of the decade.

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