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This is Sonia Soda of The Observer with The Week in Westminster.

It's been another week when the rapidly developing situation between Russia and Ukraine

has been at the top of the entry for global leaders.

But Kirstama also sought to lay down a marker on domestic policy

with a big speech on Thursday.

The theme was streamlining the state,

which the Prime Minister has described as flabby and overstretched.

He ended with this surprise announcement on what's been dubbed

the world's biggest quango.

Today I can announce, we're going to cut bureaucracy across the state, focus government on

the priorities of working people, shift money to the front line. So I'm bringing management

of the NHS back into democratic control by abolishing the arm's length body NHS England.

But it's the government's plans to streamline in a different area, namely welfare,

that is causing growing unease in labour.

Sir Keir told his party at the start of the week that the spiraling benefits bill was indefensible.

But at Prime Minister's questions, he was challenged by one of his own MPs, Richard Bergen.

Disabled people in my constituency are frightened. And they're frightened because they're again

hearing politicians use the language of tough choices.

And they know, from bitter experience, when politicians talk about tough choices, it means

the easy option of making the poor and vulnerable pay. So instead of cutting benefits

for disabled people, wouldn't the moral thing to do, the courageous thing to do,

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