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How the welfare bill went wrong – Politics Weekly Westminster

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

News, Politics

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss how the government was forced into backtracking on its plans to cut disability payments. Will changes to the welfare bill be enough to win over rebels? And how damaging is another U-turn for Keir Starmer and his team?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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Having changed the party, we now change the country.

1:19.6

And is it tough going?

1:21.6

Are there plenty of people noises off?

1:23.6

Yes, of course.

1:24.6

There always are, that always have been, that always will be. But the

1:27.8

important thing is to focus on the change that we want to bring about. No government's perfect.

1:32.5

We're going to make mistakes. The important thing is that when we do make mistakes, that we

1:36.6

act to address them and correct them and that we learn from them and that's exactly what we're

1:40.2

doing this faith. I'm Pippa Carrera. and I'm Kieran Stacey. You're listening to Politics

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