00:00It's incumbent on every government to do what it can to ensure that those people
00:04who are most vulnerable have the support they need. But it's also incumbent on
00:07every government to ensure that people of working age contribute to society,
00:10contribute to this country and contribute to our economy. It's a
00:14difficult balancing act but it's one that every government has to wrestle
00:17with and I very much hope that what we hear later on today is the Labour Party
00:20are taking this challenge seriously and they're going to do what they can to get
00:24control of an out-of-control welfare bill and get more people of working age
00:28into the workplace whilst of course continuing to support the most
00:31vulnerable in society. If those plans are as ambitious as our ones were when we
00:35went into the last election which was to reduce the welfare bill by £12 billion
00:38getting far more people of working age into the workplace then I
00:42suspect we'll have the broad support of the Conservative Party, probably more
00:45support on the Conservative benches than it has on the Labour benches. But it
00:48looks like Keir Starmer has walked back significantly from the ambitious plans
00:53that they were going to be setting out on welfare last week so as to placate
00:56the more left-wing elements of his own party and as I said we'll need to
01:02wait and see what the details are before we can actually comment but that would
01:04be disappointing if that were the case.
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