US EditionMinimum wage should not go any higher, suggests Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch's plan aims to curb welfare spending by reviewing eligibility criteria and opposing further minimum wage rises amid concerns from businesses and benefit claimants.
- Kemi Badenoch, Tory leader, announced in Glaziers Hall that her party will review welfare support conditions as part of the 'Getting Britain Working' speech.
- Badenoch said the system was not designed for 'the age of diagnosis' and struggles with rising claims, alleging some Instagram users advise people to claim anxiety to game benefits.
- The Conservative Party will review the household benefit cap and exemptions like an anxiety diagnosis, which can be worth over 20,000, with input from medical and employment experts.
- Badenoch said ministers should avoid further wage intervention, opposing more increases after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the minimum wage rise of 4.1% to £12.71 last month.
- Against a backdrop of a 114 billion benefits bill rise, Labour said the Conservatives 'broke' the welfare system and criticised Starmer for abandoning planned cuts earlier this year.
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Kemi Badenoch says minimum wage shouldn’t go any higher as Tories declare war on workers
The Tories never have been the party of working people, with a long standing opposition to the minimum wage when it was first introduced. Now the current Tory leader Kemi Badenoch wishes to continue that legacy, telling journalists that the minimum wage for millions of low-paid employees should not go any higher. Badenoch is furious that Chancellor Rachel Reeves decided to raise the pay for workers at the Budget last month. From April 2026, the …
Badenoch Pledges to ‘Draw a Line’ on Which Health Issues Get Welfare Support
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 whi…
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