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TV star Liz Carr launched a brutal attack on Tory austerity in a spellbinding speech at the Mirror's Labour Conference fringe .

The disabled Silent Witness actress compared Conservative welfare cuts to Nazi policies, as she addressed the Real Britain Reconnecting Britain event in Liverpool.

And she revealed she faces seeing her own benefits slashed.

Liz, who plays Clarissa Mullery in the BBC drama, told guests: “I have just had a care assessment.

“I am at risk of my benefits being cut … that paid for the personal assistant that got me here today.”

Revealing why she feels a “moral responsibility” to raise the plight of disabled people, she added: “I can't be a silent witness.”

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She likened the Tory welfare cuts, which aim to move people from benefits into jobs, to the notorious “ Arbeit macht fre i” (work sets you free) sign above the Auschwitz concentration camp .

“We are told – and I've heard this before - that 'work sets you free'. Where have we heard that before?'” she rapped.

“Sorry, but it needs to be said.”

Carr accused the Government of making it “shameful” to be “part of our welfare state”.

“For many people, being disabled in austerity Britain means being hated, stigmatised, demonised as burdens, drains on the state.

“It means being labelled as fraudsters and work shy.

“It's about being segregated and excluded and oppressed and discriminated against.

“It's about being forgotten and derided and abused and sanctioned and attacked and killed and cut and rationed and reduced and starved and homeless and hungry and fearful and terrified and alone and isolated and abandoned and denied resources and silenced and rendered invisible and made to jump through hoops to prove your worth, devalued, punished, subject to vicious attacks - both by individuals and the state.

“It's about being inhuman, being seen us useless and the undeserving poor.

“That's the reality for disabled people in today's society.”

Carr claimed that suicide had become “a desirable alternative” for those hit by benefits cuts.

She added: “We are all collateral damage in this ideological war this Government is waging.”

Comedian and actor Dave Johns, tipped for an Oscar for his role in Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake , called for people to “proud of our welfare state, because it benefits everybody”.

Union activist Betty Tebbs, 98, wowed delegates as she urged them to get behind newly-reelected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn .

Only he could deliver socialism, she said.