With Labour MPs rebelling over Keir Starmer’s planned cuts to welfare benefits – where does he stand now with his party and does even more trouble lie ahead? Plus, the UK’s new industrial strategy is hot off the press. What makes it so ambitious, and has it learned the lessons from Boris Johnson's failed levelling up plan? 

ESCAPE ROUTES

• Seth recommends Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida

• Hannah recommends Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth and the new Adam Curtis series, Shifty

• Zoe recommends Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury

• Ros recommends The Four Seasons on Netflix

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Presented by Ros Taylor with Zoë Grünewald, Seth Thévoz and Hannah Fearn. Audio Production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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