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By Jessica Frank-Keyes Rishi Sunak has announced plans to reform Britain’s disability benefits system in what he called a “moral mission” to address the rise in long-term sickness. The Prime Minister has announced plans to clamp down on benefits fraud and remove welfare payments entirely from the long-term unemployed who don’t accept a job. It comes after he pledged to overhaul Britain’s “sick note culture” and get more people back into work ahead of a major policy speech in London. Sunak told journalists that since the Covid-19 pandemic “something has gone wrong”, with 850,000 people becoming…

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