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Thank you. Sage Co-Pilot, your new AI productivity assistant. I'm Hugo Rifkind, and I'm going to be unpacking the politics of the day with two of the finest minds from the Times and the Sunday Times, as we do every day.

But before we do, telegraph columnist Fraser Nelson has been talking to me about his new documentary

on sickness benefit and how the system is trapping the people it's supposed to help.

Across the UK, a crisis is building but affects us all.

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