John Healey: “Demonstrated across a range of fronts that we’re a government that just is getting on with getting things done and that…”

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.

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.

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

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