The news that the government is dumping the cruel and costly process of re-examine the validity of claims of those with long term conditions, likely to get worse rather than better, is very good news. Once the diagnosis has been confirmed it is just not right to force the most vulnerable to be endlessly re-tested; not only does it cause real stress to both the sufferer and those who may be helping to care for them or employ them, but it costs the authorities a fortune, which is entirely wasted. I suspect that this will be the first of several announcements during the Tory conference designed to move the Party to what might be called the soft left, crafted to please the shrinking membership, while concealing from them frictions in a Cabinet drifting to a hard Brexit.