Brexit
decision was a choice - the right choice, in my judgment - to say we shouldn't fill those vacancies from unlimited migration. "We need to break down the barriers that stop people here in the UK from working, whether that's parents who have obstacles because of childcare costs, whether it's older people who feel they need to retire earlier... whether it's long-term sick who find there are barriers to working."
He added that "this is a budget in which I will be systematically going through all the areas where there are barriers that stop people working who want to".MP conceded the changes on childcare announced so far would not help parents who are not on Universal Credit. "We would like to help everyone. It's expensive to do it. You can't always do everything at once," he said.Credit: PA