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🗓️ 29 June 2025
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Labour's welfare rebellion, and their first year in power.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
0:04.9 | Hello and welcome to this edition of The Westminster Hour with me, Helen Kat and my guests. |
0:09.9 | Coming up, a year on from Labour's landslide victory at the German election, |
0:14.0 | it's not exactly been plain sailing. |
0:16.2 | Sarkir Stama has made several U-turns, the latest, on disability benefits, |
0:20.5 | in the face of a major rebellion |
0:22.0 | by his own MPs, and even that might not be entirely over yet. A Labour backbencher tells |
0:27.7 | us why he's still opposed to the government's welfare reforms. We'll consider how the main |
0:33.0 | parties have fared over the past 12 months and the challenges ahead, with some advice for the Prime Minister from the political historian Sir Anthony Seldon. |
0:41.3 | And we'll look ahead to the Health Secretary's new 10-year plan for the NHS. |
0:45.8 | He wants supermarkets to nudge us into eating more healthily. |
0:49.2 | Sounds like plenty for my guests to chew over. Let's meet them. |
0:52.7 | Dan Tomlinson is the Labour MP for Chipping Barnett. |
0:55.8 | He won the seat from the Conservatives at the general election a year ago. |
0:59.3 | Now, before becoming an MP, he worked at two leading think tanks, |
1:02.6 | the Joseph Roundtree Foundation and the Resolution Foundation. |
1:05.6 | And before that, he was a Treasury economist. |
1:08.0 | So, Dan, you've been an MP for a year now. |
1:12.6 | Is the job what you thought it would be? |
1:20.5 | Very, very good question. You know, I thought I would really enjoy both parts of the job, both Westminster and the constituency. But what I didn't expect is just how much I would love the |
1:25.9 | back end of every week and all the fantastic |
1:28.2 | things you get to do. So my constituencies in North London, I don't have too far to travel to get |
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