How can 6million not benefit by work?

THE true impact of Benefits Street Britain is absolutely sickening.

Under Sir Keir Starmer’s Alice In Wonderland regime a staggering if they chucked in their jobs and claimed welfare. That is one in four UK employees.

A Job Centre Plus sign, with "job" and "plus" in white and "centre" in yellow on a green background, hangs from a brick building.One in four UK employees would be better off if they chucked in their jobs and claimed welfareCredit: PA Rachel Reeves leaving 10 Downing Street, holding a red folder, phone, and patterned scarf.Shock figures are absolutely damning for the PM and his chaotic Chancellor Rachel ReevesCredit: Anadolu via Getty Images

The figures, supplied by the CSJ think- tank, show a claimant signed off for ill-health can pick up around £25,000 a year, the equivalent of take-home pay from a £30,000 pre-tax salary.

That outstrips the earnings of officers, cleaners, nursing assistants and the jobs of millions of others who get up with the alarm clock and graft for a living.

Is it any wonder that since Covid 1,000 people are being signed off on disability every working day?

Or that more and more jobs are having to be filled by workers from abroad as Brits languish on benefits?

The results are absolutely damning for Starmer and his chaotic Chancellor .

They have unleashed a welfare tsunami which will hit £406billion a year by 2030.

It has already resulted in 4.17million people on Universal Credit with no requirement even to look for work.

That is disastrous for , the economy and the individuals on welfare, many of whom will never work again.

The grotesque welfare bill also prevents us freeing up vital spending on defence, yet Sir Keir buries his head in the sand.

This madness will cost Britain dear, but the PM is too spineless to tackle it.

Depths of disgrace

THE images of a dishevelled over a young woman are a new low for him.

But they also represent a critical dilemma for his older brother the King.

Charles acted with admirable haste to remove Andrew’s titles after this newspaper revealed he had lied about contact with paedophile tycoon .

Now a vast new tranche of documents reveal that just weeks after he completed his sentence for soliciting prostitution, depraved Epstein pimped out a 26-year-old Russian woman to Andrew.

At the time the disgraced former Prince was 50 and the mystery Russian was just four years older than his elder daughter.

The revelations raise difficult questions about what Scotland Yard and royal aides knew of his behaviour when he was fourth in line to the throne.

Sir is right to call for Andrew to help victims by telling the US Congress what he knows about Epstein.

But don’t hold your breath. The former duke is shameless.