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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shorts I'm Lucy Dunn and today I'm joined by James

Heel and Michael Simmons. This morning Prime Minister Ritchie Sunach

unveiled his new welfare settlement in a speech to the Center for Social Justice. He pledged to

end this sick note culture. James you've written on this for a coffee house can you tell

us a little bit more about what Sunac said? Absolutely so went down there to the

Senate for Social Justice with an ample

supply of biscuits that were provided and basically look this today was a big

speech it's been rearranged by number 10 a few times I think but it's really I think Ritchie to enact a bit more detail on

the kind of back-to-work agenda. Obviously so we talked previously on this

podcast before we've done interviews the Prime Minister where he really talks

about his aim to get those in the long term

out of what benefits back into work that bill post-pandemic now means there's 2.8 million out of work

which we cover a lot on Coffey House and so really this was an attempt today to kind of put a bit more thought and more policy behind that agenda.

Overnight the big thing that was trailed was about him ending the sick note culture whereby you have gps signing off on people rather to then get to claim

benefits as a result of that.

So as you said for instance in the speech he said there are issues with this obviously

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