Benefits Crackdown on Pip could save £9bn - Reform

Reform UK has set out plans for changes to personal independence payments (Pip) that it says could save up to £9bn a year, with Lee Anderson, a Reform MP, saying he used to "game the system" to help people become eligible for the benefit.

- Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Anderson and the head of policy, Zia Yusuf, said the party would bar people with less serious psychological conditions, such as anxiety, from claiming Pip and would ensure anyone receiving the payments would first have a face-to-face assessment.

"We are betraying our young people," said Yusuf. "Reassessments are basically not happening any more. These young people are being labelled. They're being basically tossed on to a scrap heap for the rest of their lives. There's nothing about that that we are remotely willing to accept."