A REMARKABLE event took place last Monday. More than 110 Tory MPs crowded into the “Thatcher Room” in Parliament to talk about the UK’s relationship with Europe and, when we finished, there was no need for the cleaners to spend hours removing blood from the carpet.

Our Housing Benefit system traps the poorest in society into areas where there is simply no employment.  In many cases there will be a prosperous location where job opportunities exist on the other side of the city or the county, but the travel costs are prohibitive and they dare not move their families as they know this will mean putting their home in jeopardy, as well as their benefits