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and we are telling people and seeking to get the focus on that. but there s a bigger picture here as well, because even come april, you know, benefits will go up, there will be further support. the chancellor s autumn statement announcement was the fifth announcement that we ve had on cost of living since february, and there s been since the start of the pandemic, we ve seen a series of sticking plasters applied to the benefit system. and there has to be a point when we stand back and say, actually, the support that people are getting through the welfare state is not intrinsically linked to what they need. if you go right back to beveridge, beveridge was talking about a minimum standard of living below which people should not fall. and we re not in that position when people are constantly, you know, on the edge of crisis and having to be rescued from worse situations. now, just a few weeks ago, i mean, eight weeks ago, we had a budget that suggested that ministers didn t have this agen

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