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Making Welfare, Fair


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This week, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall laid out her initial plans to reform the welfare system, inevitably prompting a huge amount of debate. Co-hosts Charlotte Henry and Emma Burnell look into the good, the bad and the ugly of the current system and the Government's plans to improve it.

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Four Weigh-Ins and a Funeral tickets

  • Welfare Reform: This time it's complicated
  • Benefits crackdown unveiled with aim to save £5bn a year by 2030BBC News
  • Keir Starmer: Labour will help people get back to work — it’s in our name  – The Times
  • No one knows why UK benefit claims have outpaced peer countriesFinancial Times
  • Charlotte Henry on Threads
  • Charlotte Henry on BlueSky
  • Charlotte Henry's website and newsletter – The Addition
  • Emma Burnell on Twitter
  • Emma Burnell on BlueSky
  • Emma Burnell's newsletter, Hard Thinking on the Soft Left
  • House of Comments on Twitter
  • House of Comments is a C.A.H Multimedia production in association with Political Human.
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