John Healey, the Chancellor, says any cuts to welfare will be done "in a Labour way", according to the BBC. He spoke on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on the morning after the Budget.
In the same interview he repeated his pledge of a reduction in the welfare bill before the next general election. The BBC reports that he again described helping young people out of work as a "moral duty". He gave no detail of what would be cut or by how much.
Mr Healey used the same phrase in his Labour conference speech before the Budget. The Daily Mirror reported him saying: "It’s a moral duty. I refuse to write off a million young people like the Tories did."
His figure of around a million young people holds up. The Mirror reported an estimated 981,000 16-to-24-year-olds out of work between April and June, 30,000 more than a year earlier.
In that speech he announced an extra £100m fund for young people not in education, employment or training. He called it a "down-payment" on a review by Alan Milburn. The Mirror says the fund is paid for from DWP fraud and error savings.