Reform politician defends benefits plan to cancer patient
"What's Reform going to do for me?"
Reform's Laila Cunningham offers to meet an LBC caller who opposed her party's plan to slash benefits by £50 billion - including Personal Independence Payments.
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Caller Elizabeth makes an impassioned plea to Ms Cunningham as Reform proposes a plan to scrap PIP allowance.
Robert Jenrick, the party's treasury spokesperson, said the plans would be the most comprehensive overhaul to the welfare system in a generation, and would be announced in full next week.
Jenrick described the current system as "suicidal empathy" and "a strange perversion of compassion", and said these new measures would save the country around £50 billion.
Labour have already dubbed the plans "fantasy economics, built on stripping support from disabled people", while the Conservatives have accused Reform of an "attempt to distract from" questions about the £5m gift Nigel Farage received, as well as his “pointless by-election” in Clacton.