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The home of common sense. This is talk. One of the big stories we're going to be covering today is the worklessness problem, right? In this country, there are 9.4 million people who are

apparently not in work and not looking for work. That is incredible, right? It threatens growth

of this country. It's a 13-year high for what they're calling economic inactivity.

Absolutely extraordinary. So I'm going to be asking you, how on earth can we have 9.4 million

people not working and not looking for work? Nearly three million of them are off sick.

We talk about this quite a lot. Some of them don't even think they need to work at all.

Other people who do work think that they don't need to work much beyond Wednesday. And the weekend starts here is what it says on the front pages this

morning of one of the papers. Absolutely extraordinary stuff. Also, we'll be talking to some

animal rebellion nutters coming up a little bit later on. They decided it would be a good idea

to go and have a bit of vandalism on that new portrait of King Charles. We'll bring you all of that

this morning, glory. Let's get it on. Very good morning and welcome to all of you and welcome

to Theo O'Shea. Thank you very much for coming in. Lots going on this morning. I guess we should

just have a quick run through some of the papers. Vote reform, get Labour, page one of the

times.

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