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The Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch MP speaks to her party conference in Manchester about tackling Britain's massive welfare bill, on Wednesday October 8 2025. Video by Ben Lowry, editor of the Belfast News Letter

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00:00This is a plan, not a sermon.

00:04Next in my blueprint, work and welfare.

00:08If we want to end our over-reliance on immigration,

00:11then we must make sure that every British citizen who can work, does work.

00:18Right now, there are 6.5 million working-age adults claiming benefits instead of working.

00:26You heard me right, 6.5 million.

00:28That is the entire population of Cardiff and Belfast and Glasgow and Manchester combined,

00:38being paid to sit at home all day.

00:42We cannot expect people to get up and go to work and pay more and more taxes

00:47to subsidise millions of others not to work.

00:50It should not be controversial to say this.

00:52Conference, we have done the hard work, and we have a plan to cut welfare spending.

01:00First, British benefits for British citizens.

01:05It is common sense that you should not draw out of the system that you haven't paid into.

01:09Second, we will restrict benefits to those with the more severe mental health conditions,

01:16non-anxiety or mild depression.

01:19Yes, these challenges are real, and people should get support.

01:23But they cannot be treated as a reason for a lifetime of work.

01:27And third, we will restrict low-tability vehicles to people with serious disabilities.

01:33Those cars are not for people with ADHD.

01:35APPLAUSE

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