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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

More Labour MPs are expected to attend Downing Street today for meetings about changes to the welfare system,

but some are threatening to rebel against benefit cuts, and on Wednesday the 12th of March,

the Prime Minister was urged to introduce a wealth tax instead. No matter how much homework

they do, every Prime Minister will face questions they didn't expect when they turn up for

PMQs. But sometimes the inquiries give the PM the chance to set out the case for a particular

policy. Yesterday, Labour's John Slinger said too many people with disabilities and health conditions

were not getting the help they needed to get into work. So will the Prime Minister set out how

this government will give everyone who is able to work

the support they need, provide compassion to those who can't work, and fix the broken welfare

system left behind by, you guessed it, the Conservatives.

On Monday, behind closed doors, the Prime Minister told Labour MPs

that the benefit system was unsustainable, indefensible and unfair,

a message he was happy to repeat in public.

I come from a family that dealt with disability through my mother and brother over many years,

so I do understand the concerns that have been raised by him.

But we inherited a system which is broken, it is indefensible economically and morally,

and we must and we will reform it.

He said Labour would protect people who needed protecting and help those who could work get back into work.

The Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davy, thought the Prime Minister was right to talk about the need to get more people in work

and agreed about what he called the dreadful legacy left by the Conservatives.

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