A Tory leadership candidate has suggested that "too many people" are claiming benefits in the UK. Suella Braverman, Attorney General for England and Wales, is running to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister and made the comments to a news reporter on Monday.
Ms Braverman said the UK government was spending too much on welfare and that it needed to "look at some of its budgets" and cut costs. She said: "I think we spend too much on welfare. There are too many people in this country who are of working age, who are of good health, and who are choosing to rely on benefits - on taxpayers' money, on your money, my money - to get by.
"And I don't think there's enough rigour - universal credit has been a brilliant thing in stamping out the culture of dependency. But there is further we can go, there is more we can do."
