Repeat after me: 1) PIP isn't an out of work benefit. It is a benefit paid to disabled people to pay for the extra costs of living with a disability. 2) Some PIP claimants work. Some PIP claimants will never able to work at all. 3) Impoverishing people doesn't get them closer to employment

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Stand by what I said in July on #PoliticsLive on the triple lock. It's affordable, justifiable, and there are much better targets for saving money (even on pensions) than modifying the triple lock

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Best speech by a Labour Prime Minister in my lifetime - in terms of policy, rhetoric and delivery. #Lab26

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It's good Angela Rayner is still publicly opposing this proposal even now that she is back in Cabinet, but her opposition still seems limited to it being retrospectively applied. It's also a problem to apply discriminatory rules to carers who come here to work in future too.

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It appals me on a daily basis the cascade of unsubstantiated nonsense that is published or broadcast about social security without any evidence. Today's example: some think-tank called Re-state saying there are "soaring numbers of NEETs" The proportion of NEET youngsters is below the 25-yr average

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