Mel Stride: “The country was unprepared for global shocks due to Labour's 'mismanagement', leaving ordinary people 'paying the…”

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.

Labour’s tax hikes and reckless borrowing stoked inflation, and Andy Burnham has already made billions of pounds of spending commitments without any plan to pay for them.

I fear that he is somewhat captive to a prime minister who seems to want to go back to the 1970s and huge spending and state intervention.

Putting Benefits Street first leaves the economy weaker.