Tory leader says financial crisis, Brexit and Covid have all hit the economy and a review of which conditions deserve benefits is needed

In her speech this morning Kemi Badenoch admitted that Brexit damaged the economy.

In a passage aimed at Labour, she said:

Adam Smith once said, “There is a lot of ruin in a nation.”

For all that is going wrong now, and let’s be honest has gone wrong in the past, nations can absorb shocks.