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Liz Truss refuses to commit to raising benefits in line with inflation – UK politics live

Prime minister says she is committed to ‘supporting most vulnerable’ but stresses need to be ‘fiscally responsible’

Here are some of the key events as well as interesting-looking fringe events scheduled for today at the Tory conference in Birmingham.

Headline speakers later include the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, who will use her conference speech to set out her intention to bring in new laws to make it easier to deport people who come to the UK illegally.

I’ve always supported – whether it’s pensions, whether it’s our welfare system – keeping pace with inflation. It makes sense to do so. That’s what I voted for before.

We want to make sure that people are looked after and that people can pay their bills. We are not about trying to help people with one hand and take away with another.

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