Mel Stride: “The cuts to the Digital ID card budget are not real because the money was never provided in the first place.”

That is a worrying sign, we need to have a government which is on top of the public finances, not one that is making lots of spending commitments without explaining where the money is going to come from.

Putting Benefits Street first leaves the economy weaker.

The country was unprepared for global shocks due to Labour's 'mismanagement', leaving ordinary people 'paying the price'.

Labour's tax rises and business bashing have driven the cost of living higher and higher, yet Andy Burnham refuses to rule out yet more tax hikes at the Budget.