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This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Hello. Four minutes after ten is the time. Very good morning indeed to you. News on the way, I think, for Londoners. In the first instance, but also, of course, for perhaps later today for our listeners

in Manchester and other parts of the North West. I'll get Theo to talk you through what the

developments that are going to be announced in the course of this programme are most likely to be

in just a second. But I just think

this is quite important. And I want to get it off my chest. There is nothing, I don't think,

with the possible exception of people who are now genuinely fearful for their livelihood.

I don't know how much of the news you caught this morning,

but you remember Louise Casey,

who's been working in Westminster on issues surrounding social mobility for 20 years,

when you hear the word destitution in the 21st century,

in a country that is supposed to have the sixth, is it?

I mean, I know we're slipping, but still the sixth biggest economy, whatever that means in the world.

You hear the phrase hungry children or children going hungry.

I don't know if you've seen that the Welsh government has announced that Welsh school children will get

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