Tomorrow the Chancellor must address the welfare budget. Half a BILLION pounds a day on working-age welfare. The wrong incentives and the bill is growing. Labour cancelled our reforms which the OBR said would see 450,000 fewer people on health benefits. The Chancellor must act.

🤨 WATCH as Richard Madeley EXPOSES Andy Burnham’s real Brexit plans live on @GMB Andy Burnham completely gave the game away on Labour’s quiet scheme to drag Britain back into the EU while being grilled by Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid. Susanna hit him with the betrayal of his own voters. Sixty-five per cent of his constituents voted Leave and he had promised he would not reopen the entire Brexit argument. His answer was slippery: “I said we wouldn’t rerun the referendum and that’s not what I’m doing.” The wording is deliberate. He only ruled out rerunning the referendum. He left the door wide open on rejoining. Then Madeley confronted him head-on and Burnham could barely keep a straight face. Madeley: “You’re flying kites, aren’t you, Prime Minister? Watching and listening to what you were saying over the weekend, it was a classic case of somebody testing the water. You’re testing the public mood. You’re checking to see, and I’m sure you’re looking very closely at, the reaction that you’ve had from the public and from the media this morning and over the weekend.” Watch Burnham’s face as Madeley presses further. In that exact moment. The smile almost breaks through. He knows Madeley has nailed him: “You’re looking to see if actually this is on. If actually it’s on, to suggest maybe in the next manifesto that we should rejoin the EU?” Burnham ducked and weaved, going round the houses to avoid a straight answer. “I was asked a question Richard so I didn’t fly that kite. I was asked and I try to give honest answers.” Try? He tries to give honest answers? That is a very odd way to put it. Why not just say he gives honest answers? The grin told the whole story. He would be a terrible poker player. Labour’s plan is now obvious. Rejoining the EU goes into the next manifesto. No referendum. Over 17 million people cast their votes in an historic decision to leave. Whether you agreed or disagreed, that vote happened and it cannot be casually overturned without another referendum. Anything less is a disgrace.