Badenoch lays out £36bn Tory welfare cut plan and defends slashing disability benefits – UK politics live

Good morning. It is quite easy for politicians to declare that they will cut the welfare bill by X amount – but much harder when they have to explain exactly who will lose out. This is summed up by a good anecdote about a former chancellor (Ken Clarke, according to some versions, but it could have been any of them), who gave this reply when asked for cuts that would save £1bn:

So, do you want one million people to lose £1,000 each, or 10 million people to lose £100 each?

Today Kemi Badenoch is giving a speech to launch a policy document, Welfare That Works, explaining how the Tories would cut welfare by £36bn.