John Healey: “Conflict and uncertainty increases inflation, threatens growth and pushes up costs for businesses and governments alike.”

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.

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

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