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Politics Unpacked

Unfair welfare?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

New polling shows the public now thinks benefits are too low. Matt Chorley speaks to a mother on Universal Credit and a former MP who had to rely on benefits after losing his seat.


PLUS: Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester on why we really do hate elections.



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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy

0:06.0

champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over £9 million a day

0:14.3

in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks across the country

0:20.4

to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon

0:27.1

flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest

0:32.5

offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will

0:38.3

be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

0:45.2

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

0:52.8

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.5

Slash Change

1:20.0

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shirley, bringing you the best of my times,

1:24.1

radio show you can listen to us live 10-till-one Monday to Friday on your DAB radio,

1:28.8

on your smartsbigger or on the times radio app, but luckily you're here for the best bits.

1:33.9

Every day we bring you our big thing which airs 11 o'clock on the show and also our columnist panel.

1:39.1

Our big thing today, unfair state or welfare state, we examine the state of the benefit system

1:46.8

with some exclusive new polling which shows that the public now thinks that benefits might be too low

1:52.1

in a complete reversal of the picture less than 10 years ago. But first our columnist panel,

1:57.8

it's Monday so it must be Libby Rake Cheat, that's Libby Peris and Wester.

2:05.0

And we need to hear from someone else first as well, it turns out Brenda was right.

2:10.0

You're joking, not another one? Oh for God's sake, I can't honestly, I can't stand this.

2:17.2

There's too much politics going on at the moment. Why does she need to do it?

2:22.5

And that was 2017, never mind all the politics that it went on since then.

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