Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with, Steve Richards. Thank you very much for tuning in

wherever you are. And as ever, we have got a lot to cram in in our time together. In a moment,

I will pose the question. Has the government found a way to start taking back control. That phrase, of course, dominant in the

Brexit referendum in an imprecise to near meaningless way, acquires meaning when you do things like

Scrap NHS England. And I'll come on to that in a moment if it's okay with all of you. I mean,

obviously a big story this week will be the government's announcements of cuts in welfare spending.

This has been recorded before the detail and the detail will be pretty crucial. And my reflections

on the broad ideas whirling around at the moment

were in last week's podcast. So if you didn't hear it, do listen back to that once you've

listened to this one, because that will provide a lot of context to the announcement being

made by Liz Kendall this week.

And obviously we can reflect more on it in the weeks to come.

Before I begin my reflections,

there will be some brilliant questions from some of you to come.

And a couple of reminders for Patreon subscribers.

You'll have now the podcast, the bonus podcast,

looking at two highly significant defections,

Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless from the Tory party to UKIP,

as Britain moved towards Brexit.

How significant, one of the questions addressed in the bonus podcast.

And next month, what month will it be? April. Yeah, we're going to do for Patreon subscribers,

one of our live events. So do subscribe because you help keep the podcast going. And there will be a live

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