John Healey: “I am confident Labour can honour a commitment to increase defence spending and make the decisions that allow us to set…”

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

We have to bring the benefits bill down.

It is not progressive to allow a bigger and bigger benefits bill, and a system which offers an income but doesn't offer a future.

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