Nigel Farage has vowed to face down strikes, protests and riots in a crusade to slash Britain’s ballooning benefits bill.
The Reform UK leader said a “massive change of thought” was needed on the welfare system – with the country needing to toughen up and shrug off handouts for things like “mild anxiety”.
“I’m sorry, but mild anxiety is not a reason to be on disability benefit – it just isn’t. We can’t afford it, it can’t continue,” he told the Mail.
“And there’ll be riots, and there’ll be strikes and there’ll be protests, and we know all of that, but that’s what we’re going to have to do. It has to be done. We just can’t afford it now.”
His party is set to unveil radical proposals after the local elections which would cut tens of billions of pounds of tax-funded payouts.
They could require the millions of so-called “inactive” people around the country to look for a job.
Mr Farage also said Reform was taking over the mantle of the “party of working people” in a major challenge to Sir Keir Starmer’s floundering Labour.
“I’m sorry, but as I go around the country… I now believe there’s one big divide in British society: those that work and those that don’t,” he said.
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Breaking overnight… Donald Trump threatens Britain with all-new tariffs over ‘cash grab’ tax on American firms
President Donald Trump has threatened to slap Britain with all-new tariffs if it does not drop its “cash grab” tax on American companies.
The digital services tax – which came into effect in 2020 – imposes a two per cent levy on the revenues of a number of major US tech companies.
It was introduced by the Conservatives to address the large gap between the revenue being generated by British users for the social media firms compared to the amount of tax being paid to the Government.
On Thursday, Mr Trump threatened to impose a “big tariff” on Britain if Labour does not scrap the measure.
He told reporters at the Oval Office: “We’ve been looking at it and we can meet that very easily by just putting a big tariff on the UK, so they better be careful.
“If they don’t drop the tax, we’ll probably put a big tariff on the UK.”
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