Grayling: We agree with govt

Chris Grayling, shadow work and pensions secretary, comments on the government's proposed welfare reforms:

"We very much agree with the package of reforms the government is proposing.

"It's particularly helpful that they’re bringing them forward now because we always expected the reforms to take a couple of years to prepare before being ready to yield results.

"So in reality what this announcement means is that the next government will inherit a set of proposals that have been turned into action and are ready to bring about real change to our welfare state."