John Healey: “It is not progressive to allow a bigger and bigger benefits bill, and a system which offers an income but doesn't offer…”

The money New Labour had in the nineties is simply not there now.

These times demand of us a greater resolve, a greater determination and a greater hope.

And every chancellor would say that’s for the budget, and I’ll set out my plans and the future route for government for this country at that budget.

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