Badenoch reveals her conditions for helping Starmer with 'out of control' welfare spending

Kemi Badenoch has offered to assistance the authorities walk authorities to slash the payment measure - but with conditions attached.

In a code connected Tuesday morning, the Conservative Party person accused the authorities of having "totally mislaid power of spending" and "leading Britain into a deeper and deeper crisis".

She argued that the lone mode to hole the contented was to dramatically trim the payment fund - and acceptable retired to Sky News political analogous Tamara Cohen her conditions for supporting the government.

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Speaking astatine the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ms Badenoch said: "We are the lone enactment arguing that authorities has to unrecorded wrong its means.

"Every azygous different governmental enactment successful parliament today, each azygous different one, wants to summation payment spending and they voted to bash so.

"They wanted to assistance the alleged 2 kid payment cap. They don't caput that our sickness benefits measure unsocial is connected people to scope £100bn by 2030."

The Tory person said the chancellor volition person nary enactment but to rise taxes astatine the fund successful the autumn to money Labour's spending plans, and besides wage the involvement connected the immense authorities debt.

But she claimed that "some successful authorities indispensable cognize that things request to change", saying: "You tin representation their grim faces, looking astatine the latest OBR [Office for Budget Responsibility forecast] figures.

"But the information is they came into authorities with nary existent plans for however to prevention wealth - lone however to walk it. That's wherefore they are successful trouble."

To that end, she said she is "making the premier curate a superior offer" due to the fact that "the Conservative Party volition ever enactment successful the nationalist interest".

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She noted that Sir Keir Starmer had tried to chopped payment spending by targeting benefits paid to disabled people, but had to "gut" the authorities conscionable earlier the ballot and was "humiliated by his ain backbenches".

But she continued: "If helium is superior astir cutting spending, and truly bringing down the payment bill, we volition assistance him."

And pointing to Angela Rayner's resignation, and the ensuing contention for a caller lawman Labour leader, Ms Badneoch said: "Whether helium wants to admit it oregon not, Keir Starmer needs our help."

'We request to find communal ground'

Speaking to Sky News aft her speech, the Tory person said she volition lone enactment caller authorities government connected payment arsenic agelong arsenic it brings the full spending down.

"Right now, what I'm offering is for america to beryllium down unneurotic and find communal ground," she told Cohen. "We cognize that this is difficult, but Conservatives person done this before. We had to find payment savings and betterment payment successful the coalition, [majority] authorities and after, and we tin bash it again."

She insisted the Tories reduced the payment measure earlier the pandemic, erstwhile it started going up again.

She said: "We fixed the erstwhile problem. There is present a caller occupation and what we're saying is let's enactment unneurotic to hole it."

"If we don't unrecorded wrong our means, we volition spell bankrupt and our children volition person to wage disconnected the debt," she added.

'Stop each these distractions'

Ms Badenoch was besides challenged connected her assertion that she was offered a assistance spot astatine the Stanford Medical School successful California, which The Guardian reports has been denied by the admissions unit who were determination astatine the time.

She told Cohen: "They've been told thing that I didn't say. I didn't accidental I was offered a spot - I said I was offered a scholarship, a portion scholarship. I hadn't applied for it.

"But I basal by each azygous happening that I said. It's thing American universities do. They nonstop retired speculative offers."

She called connected radical to "stop each these distractions astir who said what, and who's up and who is down", and absorption connected Angela Rayner's spot taxes, and the economy.

"I archer the truth. I basal by what I said. But close now, the information is our system is going successful the incorrect absorption - it's successful escaped fall, and we person got to hole this."

A Labour Party spokesperson rejected Ms Badenoch's connection of help.

"It's delusional of Kemi Badenoch to deliberation anyone would privation to instrumentality economical proposal from her Conservative Party," they said. "Their economy-crashing, growth-killing, irresponsible attack to governing near mortgages spiralling and moving radical worse off.

"The lone happening successful Britain that needs a bailout is the Conservative Party from its leadership. The Tories haven't listened, they haven't learned, and they can't beryllium trusted.

"Labour is wide that radical who tin enactment should work. This Labour authorities is getting radical backmost into the workplace and retired of the doom loop of joblessness that spiralled retired of power nether the Conservatives."