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🗓️ 26 July 2025
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0:52.9 | Hello and welcome to Spectator TV. I'm Tim Shipman, the political ledger of The Spectator, |
0:57.3 | and today I'm joined by Katie Lamb, MP for the Wild in Kent, shadow spokesman on Home Affairs, |
1:04.4 | and generally regarded as one of the rising stars of the Tory new intake. So welcome Katie. |
1:10.2 | Thanks for having me. Thank you. |
1:11.7 | That's a pleasure. Look, you, a big issue at the moment is immigration, welfare. |
1:17.6 | You've been doing some digging around and making some waves. What have you found out? |
1:22.5 | So on Tuesday last week, for the first time, the government have published the figures on who's |
1:29.1 | getting welfare, so who's getting universal credit. And we know that there are 1.3 million people |
1:35.5 | who aren't Brits who are on universal credit. They didn't publish how much they're receiving |
1:43.3 | in pounds and pence. They did it just on the number of people. |
1:47.7 | But if they are on the basic rate for somebody over 25, that's six billion pounds a year. |
1:54.1 | And it's about one in six of all of the people who are on Universal Credit aren't Brits. |
1:59.0 | And given all of the conversations that we're having at the moment about the welfare bill, |
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