TORIES and Reform competed with pledges to slash welfare today, with the Conservatives vowing to put the money into the military instead.The Tory plan aims to axe welfare spending by £23 billion a year, including restoring the two-child benefit cap, cuts to housing benefit and ending the VAT exemption on motability vehicles.These cuts will fund an immediate £10bn uplift in arms spending, party leader Kemi Badenoch said.A Labour spokesperson ridiculed the plans, saying: “Dodgy Tory economics won’t fund Britain’s defences.

TORIES and Reform competed with pledges to slash welfare today, with the Conservatives vowing to put the money into the military instead.

The Tory plan aims to axe welfare spending by £23 billion a year, including restoring the two-child benefit cap, cuts to housing benefit and ending the VAT exemption on motability vehicles.

These cuts will fund an immediate £10bn uplift in arms spending, party leader Kemi Badenoch said.

A Labour spokesperson ridiculed the plans, saying: “Dodgy Tory economics won’t fund Britain’s defences.

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