LABOUR in government will scrap the “inhumane and unmitigated disaster” of the Tories’ flagship universal credit (UC) benefits scheme, Jeremy Corbyn will announce today.

The pledge goes further than the party’s previous policy, which was to halt the roll-out of UC across the country.

Mr Corbyn will be speaking at a rally in Chingford and Woodford Green with Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen, who wants to unseat former Conservative work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith.