Sky News reports:

The work and pensions secretary is about to oversee the biggest cut to welfare since 2015, and our political editor Beth Rigby asked her if she is entirely comfortable with that.

Liz Kendall replied that she will fix a "broken system" and declared that she believes in the "potential" of "people who've been written off and denied chances and choices".

She continued: "I am cross because I've seen in my own constituency people written off to a life that is not the life they hoped for themselves or their children or their families.

"I want to fix it. And that's what I'm determined to do."

The government is rumoured to be considering new plans to reduce benefit spending by at least £5 billion by offering benefit claimants free occupancy of a top-of-the-range glamping tent on a newly built site just outside Benidorm, complete with a daily 'full English' and a Sunday roast from the newly built on-site Toby carvery.

Another option under consideration is for benefit claimants to become higly respected 'peacekeepers' in Ukraine or to take advantage of 'a new life in the off-world colonies' i.e. the Chagos Islands.