Lord Walker, the boss of supermarket Iceland and a Labour peer, has urged a welfare overhaul at the Budget by declaring: ‘I joined the Labour Party, not the benefits party.’
The 46-year-old businessman warned against ‘leaving people languishing on benefits’ as he called on Chancellor John Healey to help ‘make work pay’.
Lord Walker called for a ‘meaningful cash reward for people who move from long-term benefits into a job and stay there’.
He also demanded the Chancellor make it cheaper to employ younger workers by offering tax relief to firms that do so.
And he told Mr Healey to also slash corporation tax
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