‘Sick note’ crackdown: The charts and figures behind Sunak’s welfare reform claims

Rishi Sunak has vowed to end a purported “sick note culture” with a new “moral mission” to reform the welfare system if re-elected, calling the number of economically inactive young people in Britain a “tragedy”.

In a speech on Friday announcing welfare reforms, the prime minister said: “We don’t just need to change the sick note, we need to change the sick note culture so the default becomes what work you can do – not what you can’t.”

Mr Sunak pointing to figures showing that 94 per cent of the 11