"This will be an issue, I suspect, eventually when people come to choose their next government because my political opponents would probably want to put taxes up, my instinct is let's try and control welfare bills, let's try and control the cost of what we're doing," he told ITV Daybreak. "Just putting more and more taxes on people is not really the right answer - in fact yesterday, I said let's freeze the council tax bill for another two years, that's really going to help families."