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Hello and welcome to Spectator TV. I'm Tim Shipman, the political ledger of The Spectator,

and today I am joined by Katie Lamb, MP for the Wild in Kent, shadow spokesman on Home Affairs,

and generally regarded as one of the rising stars of the Tory new intake. So welcome Katie.

Thanks for having me. Thank you. That's a pleasure. Look, you, a big issue at the moment is immigration, welfare. You've been doing some digging around and making some waves. What have

you found out? So on Tuesday last week, for the first time, the government have published the figures on

who's getting welfare, so who's getting universal credit. And we know that there are 1.3 million

people who aren't Brits, who are on universal credit. They didn't publish how much they're

receiving in pounds and pence. They did it just on the number of

people. But if they are on the basic rate for somebody over 25, that's six billion pounds a year.

And it's about one in six of all of the people who are on Universal Credit aren't Brits. And given all of the conversations that we're having at the moment about the welfare bill,

we've seen how impossible this government has found it to cut anything off the welfare bill at all,

which is rapidly ballooning, I think most people would think it's crazy

that one in six people that is getting universal credit isn't even British.

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