The Tories say they will end their inhumane policy of having bureaucrats arbitrarily disbelieve doctors' assessments that some specific person is disabled and needs specific kinds of state aid.

Such policy decisions can transform a capable and independent person, perhaps employed despite a disability, into a helpless cripple. That change often entails no alteration in the person in question: a change in how society treats per is enough.

Is this really the cruelest social policy of modern times? I don't know. Australia's off-shore immigration prison, which the UK is planning to imitate, could give it strong competition.

Don't believe this promise until it really happens. Tories often say they will make a change for the less cruel and then don't actually do it.