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So here's the breakdown, right, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The number of those people classed economically inactive stood at 9.4 million in the three months to June.

That's 22.2% of the 16 to 64 year old working population of this country. It's up by 350,000

in the same period last year and has risen by a million since the start of the pandemic.

The number has continued to be stubbornly high, it says here. The number of people on long-term

sickness is at a near record 2.8 million. Students are at 2.56

million who obviously don't do much at all. Don't even go to class these days, do it all online.

Those classes looking after family or home, 1.728 million. A further 228,000 described as being

off with temporary sickness. One million people plus have taken retirement before

the age of 65. All in all, it adds up to 9.4 million people, most of whom we are subsidising

as taxpayers. Let's talk to Dan Hodges from the men on Sunday. Dan, a very good morning to you.

Morning.

So, I mean, you know, we don't have to talk about the riots finally. We've finally sort of moved on, I think.

But we'll come back to it just because I know you've probably got some things to say.

This is a big problem, isn't it?

And it has been a big problem for years.

It's something that the Tories didn't really do anything about

because they were frightened of being called nasty and cruel and horrible trying to take people off benefits.

But somebody's got to do something.

And mail this morning calling for Starman to kind of fix it.

Well, I think a couple of things.

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