us Kemi Badenoch announced a benefits crackdown that would bar long‑term unemployed claimants from using welfare payments on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling and would cut Universal Credit for those without consistent contributions. Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice criticised the plan on GB News, calling it a modest Lib Dem‑style “sticking plaster” on a “gaping wound” the Tories created and saying it is a “drop in the ocean” compared with projected welfare costs.
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