Living on sickness benefits will soon pay £2,500 a year more than a minimum wage job, it has was revealed on Wednesday night.
Earnings of the unemployed who claim ill health payments will overtake those of workers on the national living wage next year, warns a think tank.
The shocking finding comes after Keir Starmer capitulated to a backbench rebellion and failed to secure reforms to the benefits system that would have saved £5billion.
On Thursday, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will warn Britain faces becoming a 'welfare state with an economy attached' in the face of a rapidly expanding benefits bill.
In a speech on welfare reform she will warn that the country is sitting on a 'ticking time bomb' of spiralling state dependency.
