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• Renewal of responsibility is dominant theme in speech
• Welfare state should offer more to those who have paid in
• Labour will urge Lib Dems to return to progressive goals
A demand for a return to a "responsibility society" has emerged as the dominant theme from submissions to Labour's policy review, the review's co-ordinator Liam Byrne is due to reveal on Tuesday. Byrne's speech can also be seen as a call for the party to respond to its failure to make a breakthrough against David Cameron in the south in last week's elections.
"Quite simply there is a sense that if we stop rewarding people for doing the wrong thing, we could do more to help the people doing the right thing," Byrne will say.
He will add that the public see "the renewal of the 'responsibility society'" as the way through the challenges Labour now confronts.
Summing up 20,000 submissions to the review, Byrne will say: "The public instinct is that we need a renewal of responsibility in the Treasury, in the City, in boardrooms, in parliament, on immigration and on welfare.
"Labour is not ahead on trust on welfare reform right now," he is expected to say, adding: "We can't win back trust by simply sitting back and letting the government get it wrong. We have to be the party that stands for restoring a sense of a 'something for something' deal at the heart of the welfare state."
He will stress that this responsibility agenda is not about private morals, but public duties. He will say "The appetite for a renewed responsibility society isn't a concern about our neighbours' private conduct; it's about our country's public duties. It's not about private ethics. It's about public ethics.
"It's about how people act in work, in politics, and in the life of local communities. It's about how people act to get a job if they can; to be a good parent; to behave as a good and peaceful neighbour."
According to Byrne, the over-arching themes in the policy review responses are:
• a sensible – but determined – way forward on cutting the deficit;
• fury about the bank bonus culture that helped land Britain with the deficit;
• anger over parliamentary expenses and a sharp sense of betrayal about the broken political promises on tuition fees;
• ambition for a system of immigration control and welfare reform that does not pay out before people have paid in;
• more help with the squeeze on the cost of living and more done about jobs, especially for young people.
Labour's private polling has shown that 67% say people with a history of paying into the benefits system should get a higher level of support if they are unemployed.
Byrne will say Labour will have to conduct a line-by-line review of welfare budgets and ask itself whether it would make more sense to offer fewer, simpler, bigger things that people would really value.
"Too many families today do not believe that they will get out what they put in. They don't think there are rewards for taking responsibility and doing the right thing."
He will also urge the Liberal Democrats to oppose measures in the welfare bill that could leave thousands of disabled people in poverty.
Ed Miliband has been pressing the Liberal Democrats to respond to their election disaster by returning to their progressive roots, and to vote down issues outside the coalition agreement. He met Labour MPs on Monday night to discuss the election results.
The Miliband response has caused controversy internally, with some claiming he is over-concerned with the Lib Dems and needs instead to focus on why Labour's appeal did not stretch to the south.
Byrne's speech will challenge Lib Dem MPs to stand up to their Conservative colleagues who he will accuse of implementing another ill-thought-through, top-down shake-up of disability benefits which risks pushing thousands of disabled people into poverty. He will call on the Lib Dems to exert parliamentary pressure to change the welfare reform bill which is threatening disabled people, saying: "We should cut welfare to help cut the deficit; but we should cut welfare by pushing unemployed people into jobs, not pushing the disabled into poverty."
He will say he supports changes to the employment support allowance but will spell out that it is wrong to ask people still recovering from cancer to start filling in job applications.
The government, he will claim, is wasting £500m retesting and retesting the disabled, when thousands of disabled people who are blind or severely mentally impaired are not going to get better no matter how often you test them.
"It is irresponsible to put people out of work without any chance of finding a new job, because they know it puts the benefits bill up through the roof."