Summary
How will the government pay for its policy U-turns? Alicia McCarthy reports as MPs challenge a minister over calls for a wealth tax. Also, questions over the future of legally binding support for children with special educational needs and disabilities in England.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Order! Order. |
| 0:07.5 | Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is today in Parliament for BBC Radio 4 for Monday the 7th of July, |
| 0:14.2 | where ministers are asked how the government will pay for recent policy U-turns. |
| 0:18.8 | Will the Chief Secretary rule out a wealth tax, |
| 0:21.4 | along with reconfirming that there will be no rise |
| 0:24.1 | in income tax, national insurance or VAT? |
| 0:27.3 | Also on this program, |
| 0:29.0 | the Education Secretary faces demands |
| 0:31.0 | not to scrap the care plans |
| 0:32.8 | that support children in England |
| 0:34.4 | with special educational needs. |
| 0:36.7 | But she argues, |
| 0:37.8 | The system that we have at the moment just isn't working. |
| 0:41.9 | And ahead of a visit to the UK by the French president, |
| 0:45.2 | a reform MP wants to know. |
| 0:47.2 | We know that terrorists and potential terrorists |
| 0:50.4 | are coming on small boats across the English Channel. |
| 0:53.6 | So why are the border force |
| 0:54.8 | picking these people up and bringing them to the UK? But first, a senior Treasury Minister |
| 1:00.4 | has faced questions in the Commons on whether the government plans to introduce a wealth tax. |
| 1:05.8 | The opposition says recent policy U-turns on disability benefits and winter fuel payments for pensioners |
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