We await the detail of Alan Milburn’s review, but he’s right to say it’s time to stop handing out cash for mild conditions.

That's in our welfare savings plan already.

Conservatives will support measures to reduce benefits for people who should be in work, including existing claimants.

The question is whether Andy Burnham has the backbone to get these reforms through his welfare-obsessed MPs.

However, Milburn’s proposals also appear to involve spending billions more on subsidised work placements to compensate for the jobs Labour have killed with their taxes and red tape.

This is Labour’s welfare doom loop in action: destroy jobs, then spend more taxpayers’ money on benefits.

Conservatives have a plan to back young people to work and bring down the welfare bill.

Our plan for young people will halve the Jobs Tax for under 25s, slash Labour’s job-killing red tape, create 100,000 new apprenticeships and end the pathway from education to welfare with our Get to Work programme.

This morning, Lord Hunt of Wirral challenged the Government over its failure to attract private investment for British Steel and called on Ministers to scrap Labour’s carbon taxes, employment taxes and the most damaging provisions of the Employment Rights Act which are all nomy back.

Today, Labour MPs face a simple choice: do they want the welfare bill to come down or not?

The Chancellor admitted the bill won't fall on his watch, so working families face £50,000 in tax to fund it. That isn’t fair.

Unlike Labour, we have a plan to cut £36bn a year from the welfare bill and get Britain working again.

If Labour MPs can't vote to bring down the welfare bill in this parliament, it'll prove that Labour are no longer a party for workers, they are the Welfare Party.

Burnham's do nothing government has left Britain in limbo.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

On this Armistice Day I want to remember all those servicemen and women who have given their lives in the service of our country.

Their sacrifice must never be forgotten.

Labour have finally done the right thing & introduced a proper smartphone ban in schools.

They voted against a ban seven times & dismissed our call as an “unnecessary, headline-grabbing gimmick”.

Labour have been on quite a journey, but I welcome this newfound common sense.

After months of contortions, I’m glad Labour have finally agreed to a proper ban on smartphones in schools.

We could have saved a lot of time if they'd listened to us in the first place, rather than dismissing our calls as an unnecessary gimmick, & made clear from the off that “noties shouldn’t be allowed. We got there in the end.

I avoided commenting on this yesterday because it was Remembrance Sunday - something quite obviously missed by the Scottish Government.

Nearly 190,000 Scots have perished in the service of our country since 1914. But the self-styled Government of Scotland actively chose not to recognise this in any official comms yesterday- the day we all paused to remember them and those that fell with them for our peace, freedom and democracy.

Bandi Chhor Divas is a hugely important date in the Sikh calendar. But over 83,000 Sikhs died fighting for peace and freedom in uniforms of the British Commonwealth, in both World Wars. And over 200 serve in the British Armed Forces today. A fact also ignored.

The SNP Scottish Government, led by John Swinney, could have recognised both the celebration in the Sikh Calendar and our shared Remembrance of our fallen.

But they didn’t.

That they didn’t shows a callous disregard to history, to those that fell, their memory, their families and those still serving. And let’s face it- the SNP chose not to because those fallen were wearing the Union flag on their shoulder.

It says everything you need to know about these charlatans masquerading as statesmen. They don’t speak for me. They don’t speak for a majority of Scots.

It was an honour to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph this morning.

This Sunday we remember all those who never came home, the families who never stopped waiting and we pay tribute to all those who wear the uniform today.

We will remember them.

Letting immigrants sit their English test online is a fraudsters’ charter, and cheating will be rife.

We are acting to stop it.

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Last week, I visited Linton-on-Ouse with @joymorrissey , @kevinhollinrake and @AlecShelbrooke to hear directly from residents.

The Government plans to accommodate 1,500 young male illegal immigrants beside their homes and a children’s playground.

The next Conservative government will deport all illegal immigrants within a week of arrival, rather than house them in our communities. That is what our BORDERS plan will deliver.

Small villages like Linton-on-Ouse should not be forced to house large numbers of asylum seekers.

You'd think after Piddington that the Government would take note and listen.

But once again Andy Burnham is ignoring the people affected by his plans to house illegal immigrants.

Only Conservatives have a BORDERS plan that will take us out of the ECHR, making sure all illegal within a week of arrival, and removing the need to use these sites at all.

The @UKLabour Government wants your car gossiping to the taxman every mile you drive

Another tax on drivers to bankroll ever more benefits handouts

Labour buried their plan in the Budget small print

@Conservatives will keep calling it out

Drivers should not be taken for a ride

Via @David_Churchill in @DailyMailUK

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There you have it. Not only no welfare savings in this Parliament. But Labour plan to make no savings for the next 10 years.

Time for a new government with a plan to cut the benefits bill.

Labour has created a Britain where work doesn’t pay.

Yesterday, during the post PMQs media round, I found myself with my opposite number Bridget Phillipson debating youth unemployment and an out of control welfare budget.

It was clear that Bridget simply doesn’t understand it t have created this crisis of over 1 million young people not in employment, education or training.

Failure to act on working age benefits so there is no incentive for young people to work or take on an apprenticeship. Taxing businesses so much they can’t afford to hire young people.

We need to make work pay again in Britain.

Faces of British stagnation and decline.