Truss must raise benefits in line with inflation, Javid says

Sajid Javid and Liz Truss pictured in July last year. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Liz Truss must increase benefits in line with inflation rather than earnings, the former chancellor Sajid Javid has said, as the prime minister faces increasing Conservative pressure to relent over the issue.

Victoria Prentis, the work and pensions minister, insisted no decision had been made, while seeming to hint she would prefer the more generous settlement.