Kemi Badenoch has blasted Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer for being in a 'race to the bottom' over welfare handouts.
In a feisty attack on the Reform and Labour leaders, Mrs Badenoch said the pair believed in getting taxpayers to fund 'unlimited child support for others' by scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Writing in the Mail, the Tory leader branded the benefit unfair and unsustainable, because welfare 'traps people' and 'drives up costs for everyone'.
Instead, she said the Conservatives were now the 'only serious party of sound money' and warned that Britain 'can't afford the fantasy economics of Starmer and Farage', who 'treat economics like a branch of showbiz'.
Mrs Badenoch's intervention came after Mr Farage this week pledged a spending splurge of up to £85 billion – including generous benefit increases.
