Treasury denies Healey plan to cut welfare bill before election, claiming his comments were misinterpreted – UK politics live

Asked earlier if there would be a cut to the welfare bill before the next election, the chancellor said: ‘There will be a reduction in the benefits bill’John Healey has denied postponing difficult decisions on the welfare system, insisting the government is making changes “now”.Thinktanks and opposition parties have made this claim. But, when this was put to Healey in an interview on GB News, he replied:This was a broken system. And two years ago we started putting back in place face-to-face assessments. We’ve changed terms of universal credit, so people don’t have to brand themselves as too sick to