Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted he could not live on the UK's meagre £94.25-a-week rate of sick pay. The Cabinet minister issued a blunt "no" when he was asked on BBC's Question Time if he could get by on the sum.
His forthright response comes after other Tories, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, dodged the question. And it hints there could be a change to sick pay in a sweeping package of measures for workers that is due to be announced by Mr Sunak tonight.
The Chancellor has spent days locked in talks with industry and unions - including the TUC, whose boss Frances O'Grady quizzed him on Question Time - about how to help workers.