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not been disclosed. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it's laura in the studio. and it's henry at home. now, then... so, welfare reform. very important, b, very hard to do and c, very controversial. pensions secretary, going quickly enough? is she radical enough? lots of people are fed up about it. coming in a couple of weeks. that's right.

a big, controversial and difficult political moment and she got back, i think, the political momentum week and the decision on the heathrow third runway. to take on the issue of welfare reform. and she essentially said that she thinks the system at the moment traps people out of work who ought to be a chancellor of the exchequer, a chancellor of the exchequer, especially a labour chancellor especially a labour chancellor of the exchequer, says something like that, for a lot of labour mp5 ,, for a lot of labour mps and certainly a lot of labour activists, a bell goes off in their head, which goes "ding, ding, ding, welfare cuts". and i was speaking to someone

in the course of this story, and they reminded me that when keir starmer was running to be leader of the labour party, at a point at which people said no—one sort of further right ofjeremy corbyn and his supporters could ever become leader of the labour party again. what his now chief of staff and then campaign director morgan mcsweeney found was actually labour members, labour party members, whether they'd come into the labour party on the wave of corbynite enthusiasm, orwhetherthey'd been knocking doors since harold wilson were united by a few things, and top of that list is a commitment to the welfare state. right. that is why this issue is potentially so tricky and so controversial for rachel reeves — and the bill for the welfare state is increasing.

of bumps post—covid. it, here's how you go and get a sick note. exactly.

a bit of nuance here. but just to sort of explain it to people at the moment, if you are out of work, there's basically two if you get offered them. a portion of your benefits. get more money and you are not required to seek work or do certain things. is that that is what rachel reeves, i'm told repeatedly tells colleagues in meetings is a perverse incentive, ie., she thinks there are certain people who are trying and succeeding on getting on to the sickness stream want to have to seek work.

their benefits and ending up in the sanctions regime. which puts people somewhere between the two. into good, well— paying jobs. there there, though. if the way is to say, ah, let's have another stream, people in need are claiming welfare, and they are some

of our most vulnerable friends, family members and neighbours. with the state. and if you introduce a new third way, it's how going to become the politics. so there are far fewer of those taking place than were taking off you go."

as sensitive as possible, and we need to help coach hiring people to carry out those trainings and to the treasury. they want to... they are in savings mode. and someone was saying to me, look, rachel reeves has when it comes to this area and benefits. and there are two real echoes here for me.

universal credit was meant to simplify the benefits system — money if they got back to getting a job. ian duncan—smith had a huge bust up with the treasury put in place for universal credit to work. cos i'm old enough to have been around then in single parents having to start looking for work when there were children getting younger

and younger and younger. it's about rights and rights and responsibilities, right? and it comes down, really, to where your moral compass is on that. i suppose at the other end you would have people like, that actually work is good for you, and the government has yeah. it's a great political fault line.

the apprentice boss is in the house of lords. to henry, saying that there's some tiktok peer to peer assisting people to go through the process is one way of looking at it. video instruction. that's also the case with personal independence payment, if they have disability. again, you have to fill out forms to prove that you ought to be in receipt of these. some of the most vulnerable in society get their way around

there's a generational thing here. but the labour party was basically opposing and the 2024 intake of labour mps, which is massive, in the early 2010s by opposition to austerity and opposition to

conservative welfare cuts. complicated for rachel reeves. niche newscast. she's been around this track before. afterwards that made her toxic with labour party activists. party.

quote—unquote perverse incentives are, but also finances are and thefact 7 ,... 7, 7 ., what's the timeline? yeah. to the bean counters, to the city and to the country on public spending.

because it's time to talk about brexit. laughter. yes, he's invited, ithink, to to attend a meeting of those people in the european union. we've never spent any time in the last 50 years in this that the united kingdom has been locked into a tribal argument about brexit. because again, we'll see a british prime minister, to be sort of screaming like a banshee.

"and are you going to give britain anything? " blah, blah blah. but they don't actually want anybody to think there in brussels, walking the kind ofjournalistic and laura, you know, you were often packed in that member of the eu 28 as it then was walking along there and there is something

a bit familiar, notjust because actually, we've discussed on newscasts yes. and he took the boris pickle and turned it into the windsor framework? maybe hejust had enough. so now we've got keir starmer doing a reset. is widely sought by brexiteers, and he played an important brexit negotiator. he did the brexit done, he got brexit done. he said two things to me for this fifth anniversary,

out of that european nest. so here are those two statements for you to ponder to start suggesting it. things to do.

they can't devote their entire life to these things. - and that's perfectly natural because they expected - don't want to talk about it anymore, because basically because i said, why don't you justjoin up with nigel farage then?

needs a different argument around facts, and he wants people to come and help him push facts that boost that case. should we just have a inasmuch as anybody can ever, but we do have some handy bullet points from our of the politicking about this. the customs union has harmed our trade. how much can you point to brexit, how much brexit absolutely did damage our economic prospects. so that is point one.

to the eu budget. out, but we don't send money to brussels any more sets its own rules. about... to record levels and then did start to come down. priti patel, who's now the shadow foreign secretary but of course was the home

secretary as the uk left with the fact that migration has gone up an awful lot. is at risk of losing or indeed already has lost to reform on their right. is basically the question of whether the conservative party theresa may had voted remain

was that the reason the uk had voted to leave and immigration needed to come down. interesting in and of itself. i didn't know that. i think i mean, i don't know about you, laura. it almost never comes up when. you don't want to talk about it. i think immigration

does come up. but yeah, brexit doesn't. but partly you have to you can't forget that i cannot begin to tell you the level of drama right. and i don't mean drama like, oh, it was fun and it was amazing. like people, you'd see them crying, shouting at each other, screaming at each other, and years or... political party, plotting against each other, they just don't want to talk about it. people just don't want to talk about it. borisjohnson�*s huge victory in 2019 because lots that's where get it done came from.

which is why it's interesting actually we've got ed davey on tomorrow. helsreally.trying--,,, .. . . ,. . h...” on the european union and keir starmer, you know, that open that debate. brexit has completely changed british politics. polling in the 20s. hello listeners in northern ireland, hello listeners in wales. some sensible discussion about scottish politics

david cameron's answer to whether he was right and i'm paraphrasing — well, the fact that leave won needed to be held, ie there was roughly half if remain had won 52—48, there'd still have been 48% have been about immigration.

yeah. and we'll bring it. marvellous. i'm going to be there. yeah, because we are like the weekend, obviously. bus. now, look, we say, henry, it's fabulous. go and watch that football. thank you for bothering. well done. congratulations.

deary me. newscast. hello there. we've had mixed fortunes of weather today. it turns wet and windy though. in the northwest of the country. thanks to this area of high pressure. heavier bursts at times. and with that strong wind, england and wales mostly and some fog, but less cold in the north and west,

though for northern ireland it stays rather gloomy. i think for most with temperatures in single digits. sunday night sees a new weather front pushing into scotland and outbreaks of rain. picture for the south and east. and the heavy rain.

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