Reform accused of targeting the most vulnerable with £50bn benefit cut

<p>Robert Jenrick takes aim at disabled people and foreign nationals after saying UK guilty of ‘suicidal empathy’</p><p>Reform UK has been accused of excluding the most vulnerable from society and punishing non-Britons living in the UK as it prepared to outline £50bn of cuts to benefits for disabled people and foreign nationals.</p><p>Robert Jenrick, Reform’s finance spokesperson, will detail the plans for £20bn of cuts to disability benefits overall, as well as another £21bn from stopping foreign nationals – including EU citizens with settled status – claiming almost any benefits, among other cuts.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/16/jenrick-cuts-benefits-disabled-people-foreign-nationals">Continue reading...</a>