John Healey: “We have to bring the benefits bill down.”

Our social security system must always be there for those who can never work. But for everyone else, benefits should be a bridge to work, to wider participation, to a better life, not a trap that people can’t escape.

5% represented a 'reasonable ceiling' on the tax.

The rock of fiscal discipline. It underwrites every promise this government makes … we can’t succeed without it.

The best thing we can offer a young person is not a benefit payment - it's a first job with training and a wage.