Hello, hello, hello. I hope you're enjoying the summer. That's the last time we'll see

summer for about nine months or any sun, but I think we've been basking in it after the

year and a half we've had. This is such an important show today. What we're going to do

today is we're going to talk about the coming cut, which is what it is. That's important

we talk about that to universal credit, which is the way the Tories redig the welfare state

will have a bit of conversation about that as well. And at the same time, of course, as you'll

be aware, the Tories are hiking national insurance, which will disproportionately affect many

low paid workers, including care workers for that matter, to pay for the social care crisis

without even resolving it, which we'll mention a bit as well. But after a pandemic, which

has had terrible, not just health consequences, but economic and social consequences, the

conservatives are going to slash the real terms income of low paid workers across the country

in a during the biggest crisis we've had since World War II. What are the consequences

of that? Well, what we're going to do today is we've got a brilliant expert who you'll

many of you'll be familiar with, Professor Jonathan Portes. We've had him on before.

And we'll talk about what this actually means, the economics of it, the impact this will

have, how regressive it all is. But often this conversation about the welfare state is often

about those people who are affected without including them in the conversation. Now, we

want to rectify that. So we'll be talking to a brilliant activist from disabled people

against the cuts. And it is very important that we know that disabled people have been

obviously hammered in the aftermath of a financial crash they had absolutely nothing

to do with. And disabled people against the cuts have been the absolute forefront of

much of the activism, organizing disabled people to have a voice and to fight back against

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