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Minister defends disability benefit cuts, saying you can’t ‘tax and borrow your way out of need to reform state’ – UK politics live


Pat McFadden, Cabinet Office minister, says changes to be announced today are about giving people ‘hope of work in the future’

Badenoch is now taking questions.

Q: You don’t wnat to get to net zero by 2050, but what is your date? What do you say to people who argue that, without a date, you don’t have a plan?

That’s not how it works. You can’t just pull [a date] out of the air. And what we did was pick a target and then start thinking of how to get there.

We need to start thinking about it in a different way. How does this impact families? How is business going to help us deliver? And that’s what the policy commissions are going to do.

Labour may not be interested in these questions, but we are, we are interested because as Conservatives, we want to protect our environment, we want to secure our energy and deliver a better world for our children.

Someone has to save these noble objectives from the zealots who have hijacked this agenda.

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Publish date : 2025-03-18 10:57:00

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