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

The Tory leader said the system was not designed to handle ‘the age of diagnosis which we now live in’.

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”.

In a speech at Glaziers Hall in central London, she claimed the system was not designed to handle “the age of diagnosis which we now live in” before suggesting that some people were “gaming” benefits rules to receive money.

“We will review every circumstance in which benefits are currently paying more than work,” she said.

“We will undertake a full review of the