Tories latest crushing contradiction: a woman who cannot get out of her wheelchair without help was told to report for an inspection where an incompetent non-doctor will decide whether she is fit for work. But she can't get into the office because it is upstairs.

The building has an elevator, but they said she is forbidden to use it unless she can walk up and down the stairs.

If she tells them, a second time, that she can't go up the stairs, they will call her a malingerer and cut off the welfare benefits she lives on.

It takes a special kind of heartlessness to design a bureaucracy to order people to do the impossible and then punish them for failing. That is the heartlessness of Tories.

Tory dooH niboR policies amount to destitution by design. 1.5 million people in the UK were destitute in 2017. But that record won't last long, with Tories in charge. They will beat it this year.

The danger is that this has been getting worse for so long that it starts seeming normal.