Liz Kendall, UK work and pensions secretary, arrives for a cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London, UKLabourannounced it would be cutting £5 billion from the welfare bill this week in a clampdown on the ballooning cost of benefits.The move is the central part of major reforms to the whole welfare system.Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall told MPs that the current set-up was “failing the very people it is supposed to help and holding our country back”.The government will be narrowing eligibility criteria for personal independence payments (PIP) so only the most disabled people will receive it – and an estimated one million will lose out on the payment.Universal Credit payments for t