Conservatives to draw up a plan for £ 47 billion in cuts on public expenses

The conservatives will later explain proposals to reduce government spending on welfare, help and officials whose shadow Chancellor will say that it would save £ 47 billion in five years.

Sir Mel Stride is expected to say in his speech to the party in Manchester’s party that “no longer pretends we can continue to spend money that we just don’t have”.

Proposals include stopping welfare claims for people with “low psychological problems” and reducing the number of civil servants by around 132,000, a reduction of around a quarter.

Sir Mel will also say that his party would reduce auxiliary expenditure by £ 7 billion to 0.1% of national income.

The Conference in Manchester marks almost a year since Kemi Badenoch was chosen as party leader.

In the past 12 months, the party has difficulty preventing the political threat of Reform UK and against suffered heavy defeats in this year’s local elections.

During their conference, which started on Sunday, the conservatives hope to portray themselves as more competent and more credible – especially for government spending – than their political rivals.

In his speech, Sir Mel will say: “We must come on top of government spending.

“We cannot deliver stability unless we live within our resources.

“We are the only party that gets it. The only party that stands up for tax responsibility.”

His proposals are, among other things, storing:

• £ 23 billion of the welfare account
• £ 8 billion by bringing the number of civil servants from 517,000 to 2016 levels of 384,000
• £ 7 billion of the overseas auxiliary budget
• £ 3.5 billion by terminating the use of hotels for asylum seekers
• £ 4 billion by ensuring that benefits and social housing are reserved for British nationals
• £ 1.6 billion by deleting the environmental policy, including cutting subsidies for heat pumps and electric vehicles.

Earlier this year, the Labor government tried to lower nearly £ 5 billion of the Disabled and Health-related benefits Act, but had to go back after an uprising by its own members of parliament.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat Mcfadden has suggested The government will return to the problem and the BBC says that changes to the welfare system must “make”.

Last year, the office for budget responsibility prediction These total expenditure for benefits for health and disability would rise from £ 64.7 billion in 2023-24 to £ 100.7 billion in 2029-30.

The tories claim that they can reduce the bill by revising exemptions for the household benefit ceiling, which limits the VAT subsidy for motability – with which the claimants can lease vehicles – and change obligations for job seekers.

It says that claims would stop for people suffering from “low -level health problems”, which claims “what is really needed, treatment and support is not cash”.

It also says it would stay in place The benefits with two children, He prevents households on universal or child tax credit from receiving payments for a third or next child born after April 2017.

The Labor government is under pressure to remove the cap, where many of its back benchers claim that the limit has increased the number of children in poverty.

The Resolution Foundation says that Axing the Cap would remove 470,000 children from poverty and cost around £ 3.5 billion.

Badenoch has previously defended the cap proverb It was a matter of “fairness” and conservatives believed that people should “make the same choices about benefits to have children as everyone else”.

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that he would reduce the British auxiliary budget from 0.5% of gross national income to 0.3% in 2027 to pay for an increase in defense expenditure.

The conservatives say that expenses further reduce to 0.1% would save almost £ 7 billion.

Currently, part of the existing auxiliary budget is used to pay For hotels to accommodate asylum seekers.

The Think Tank Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) welcomed some proposals, but warned the conservatives not to ignore “elephant in the Chamber” of age -related expenses such as pensions.

Tom Clougherty, executive director of IEA, said: “Ultimately, no political party can only balance the books by cutting things that their supporters don’t like.

“Without that other cuts will probably end up on running to stand still.”

The conservatives have not promised to change The triple lock, This guarantees that the state pension will rise every year in accordance with inflation, wage increases or 2.5% – depending on what is the highest.

Romilly Greenhill, Chief Executive of Bond, the network of international development organizations, said that the proposed cuts in the field of auxiliary budget were “reckless, short -sighted and morally indefinable”.

The conservative conference comes six weeks before Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers its budget on November 26.

During the elections, Labor promised not to increase income tax, national insurance or VAT for working people.

However, it is speculated that Reeves must levy taxes to comply with its self -imposed rules for public expenses and debts.

In a report in March, the Office for Budget Responsibility said that the Chancellor only had a “very small margin” – £ 10 billion buffer – to work.