Sick Note Britain?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
GPs are being told to stop handing out so many sick notes as part of the government's efforts to get more people back to work. And why are women turning to Reform?
Ed Vaizey unpacks the politics of the day with Alice Thomson and Cindy Yu.
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| 0:00.0 | Get that Euro-Millions feeling this Friday. |
| 0:02.6 | Ten UK winners are guaranteed to be millionaires. |
| 0:05.2 | That's ten more reasons to dance. |
| 0:07.5 | Ten more robots. |
| 0:08.6 | Ten more Limburgs. |
| 0:09.7 | Ten more salsets. |
| 0:11.0 | Ten UK winners are guaranteed to be millionaires this Friday. |
| 0:14.8 | Euro-Millions from the National Lottery. |
| 0:16.7 | Play on air. |
| 0:17.4 | Account terms rules and procedures apart. |
| 0:18.9 | Players must be 18 or over. |
| 0:28.3 | Music Play on app. Account terms rules and procedures apart. Players must be 18 or over. Welcome back. It's Ed Faisy and we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day, |
| 0:32.1 | including the government's drive to stop GPs handing out sick notes |
| 0:35.6 | and the pop star Olivia Rodrigo paying for her crew to have therapy. |
| 0:40.7 | My weekly therapy is talking about the world's problems with the brightest minds from the Times and Sunday Times. |
| 0:47.5 | And I'm joined today by the Uber empathetic Alice Thompson. |
| 0:51.9 | Cindy, you is also joining us. |
| 0:53.6 | Welcome to the show, Cindy. |
| 0:54.7 | Hello. |
| 0:55.5 | You keep moving seats because you find screens intimidating. |
| 0:59.4 | Yeah, I didn't want to sit in the co-presenter seat. |
| 1:01.9 | I mean, there's just quite a lot of controls, you know, but I've been for shoved back in. |
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