John Healey: “2025 is the critical year for the war in Ukraine.”

We have to bring the benefits bill down.

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.

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.

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