Top team lost £20k a minute to fraudsters'

DEPARTMENTS run by members of Kemi Badenoch's top team handed £20,000 of taxpayers' money to fraudsters every minute of the last parliament.

- MIKEY SMITH Deputy Political Editor

Crooks swindled £44billion from Tory-run ministries from 2019- often when headed by members of Ms Badenoch's shadow cabinet.

Some £35bn was lost to fraud and benefit payment errors at the Department for Work and Pensions, previously overseen by Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride.