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The Chancellor and the Prime Minister initially stated intentions to lower the benefits bill. The Chancellor has since stated there is no deadline to achieve this reduction within the current Parliament.
The Chancellor previously promised to bring down the benefits bill. The Prime Minister insisted on moving quickly to lower the welfare bill.
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“Also today, Labour's welfare tangle. Yesterday, the Chancellor promised to bring down the benefits bill. We have to bring the cost of benefits down. We will. And then the Prime Minister insisted they're moving fast to achieve that. We want to get the welfare bill down as quickly as possible. Ah yes, but now the Chancellor says there's no deadline, actually, to deliver on that. It's not correct to say that we're going to bring this welfare bill down in this Parliament.”