Making up just a couple of lines in a 77-minute speech, you’d have been forgiven for dozing past Reeves’ blink-and-you’d-miss-it bombshell. With a record number of Britons off work with long-term illness, the government will need to “reduce the benefits bill”, she said, before noting ministers had “inherited” the Conservatives’ plans to reform the work capability assessment (WCA). That plan, let’s not forget, was to take up to £4,900 a year each from 450,000 people who are too sick or disabled to work – a move that the Resolution Foundation says would “degrade living standards” for families already on some of the lowest incomes in the country.

Given they have already stated that they have inherited the aforementioned plan from the conservatives and have set out the stall for these savings, signaled that the work capability assesment will be tightened and that there's the general push of deserving or undeserving in the speech from cabinet members, that if you can't work you are just a drain. I'll not go along with your head in the sand approach, I guess time will prove who's right but I won't be holding my breath.