A Battle Within Labour Over Welfare Reform?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the challenges facing Labour’s plans for welfare reform. After the chancellor Rachel Reeves set her sights on a “fundamental” reform of the system, Laura, Paddy and Henry discuss what that could mean for health and disability benefits and why cost cutting reforms could cause trouble within the Labour party.
Plus, five years on from the UK’s departure from the European Union we look at what’s actually changed and why for some people the Brexit deal still isn’t done.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Henry's here on a Saturday because he's got a scoop or rather a long read. Hi, Henry. |
| 0:10.5 | Hello, great to be with you. |
| 0:11.8 | It's going to confuse regular newscasters who'll think this is Sunday, but it's actually Saturday. |
| 0:16.1 | It is Saturday. It's Saturday and it's 10 past two when we're recording. |
| 0:19.3 | That's nice to have you with this on a Saturday. |
| 0:22.2 | What do you normally do on a Saturday, Henry? |
| 0:25.6 | Think Big Thoughts ready for Sunday's newscast, |
| 0:27.7 | but I have no idea where those thoughts are going to go now. |
| 0:28.8 | What a great answer. |
| 0:29.9 | You'll go far. |
| 0:31.6 | What's a football action on a Saturday? |
| 0:32.9 | How does it differ from a Sunday? |
| 0:39.3 | Well, of course, the frustrating thing about football on a Saturday is the continuing 3pm blackout. |
| 0:43.3 | So I'm a Liverpool fan and Liverpool have a very big match in 50 minutes time. |
| 0:47.5 | And I will have the great joy of listening to it on 5 Live. |
| 0:51.8 | But I would rather it were televised live. |
| 0:54.4 | There's a whole separate podcast on the... Plenty of podcasts on that. |
| 0:55.9 | What it means in the digital age and so on. |
| 0:57.8 | Also, you'll know if you're listening rather than watching both Paddy and I are pretending |
| 1:01.4 | to nod sagely when you were talking about that. |
| 1:03.2 | What I'm worried about is that if Henry went live talking football TV rights, his podcast |
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