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Some of that has been to mitigate decisions taken on welfare by the Westminster government.

He also said his party would "go further on welfare reform" and pointed to its plans to cut £12bn from the welfare budget.

But he cynically joined in the lie that eligible people are "cheating" the system by penning a New York Times op-ed earlier this month that falsely claimed "able-bodied adults on welfare are not working at all" and "we don’t even ask them to."

Although their party is split on welfare, some MPs have something in common.

When MPs walk through the voting lobbies next month, their version of Labour's values on welfare will be revealed.