Tories call for ‘real welfare reform’ following govt review

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Shadow Crime & Policing Minister Matt Vickers says the Conservative Party are advocating “real welfare reform” after the government announced an independent review into the rise of mental health services. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We have said, in fact if you watch Kemi's fantastic conference speech you would have seen that,

00:05we've said we need to see real welfare reform.

00:08We've put forward a paper that would see £23 billion of savings in welfare.

00:13We've stood up for the two-child cap, we've stood up to reduce the spending on welfare.

00:18The reality is that 3,000 people a day are assigned up to sickness and incapacity benefits.

00:23That's up 50%.

00:24Last week we saw the Chancellor announce an additional £16 billion in welfare spending.

00:32There are people out there paying record levels of tax.

00:35They need to see value for money.

00:36Welfare should be about supporting people who need it.

00:39It's supposed to be a safety net.

00:40Actually, the odds are stacked against those people who work,

00:43who are now subsidising people who are out of work in ever greater volumes and numbers.

00:4819% more people unemployed since this government came to office.

00:51Those people have got to be supported in some way, shape or form,

00:54and increasing that benefit bill is not helpful to hard-working taxpayers across the country.

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