22-05-2025
Labour must end the scandal of healthy millions rotting on benefits
Wembley Stadium is the biggest sports ground in the country and the second-biggest in Europe. Its capacity is 90,000 people. Much like the size of Wales, it is a readily intelligible unit of measurement for the otherwise incomprehensibly large. So it is to Wembley that anyone seeking to understand the scale of Britain's galloping welfare crisis should turn.
Every day, some 2,000 people make a claim for disability and incapacity benefits. Half are claiming the personal independence payment (PIP), which is not means-tested and can handsomely remunerate otherwise-healthy Britons of working age prepared to cite anxiety and similar conditions as an impediment to their participation in the economy. In other words, Britain's claimant count for health-related benefits is increasing by one Wembley Stadium every 45
