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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Political Thinking with Nick... 20240604 02:36:00

We are seeing it. we publish every month our cost of living dashboard, we can see what s happening. 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 benefits 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 we

Transcripts for BBCNEWS Political Thinking with Nick... 20240604 10:36:00

I heard jeremy hunt on the television this morning saying we want people to be able to go out to the pub. now, here s somebody who can t even buy her son a pint on his 18th birthday. and that s the sort of situation that an awful lot of people are in. so even people on benefits who the headlines suggest are being protected from inflation are going to struggle this winter? so huge numbers of people are going to struggle this winter. people on benefits. people, you know, we re seeing a lot of working people coming to us. the crisis kind of started in april, but it was. in the run up to april, we were all saying there s going to be a big crisis when energy prices go up by 57%. we got to april and almost as soon as we got there, everybody started worrying about october. but that crisis in april happened. it s working its way through. we are seeing it. we publish every month our cost of living dashboard, we can see what s happening. and we are telling people and seeking to get the focus on

Transcripts for BBCNEWS Political Thinking with Nick... 20240604 10:37:00

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 benefits 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 agenda at all. did you get to ministers? did you persuade them? why do you think this new set of ministers listened to those saying put benefits up ? well, we can never know. you know, that the combination

Transcripts for BBCNEWS Political Thinking with Nick... 20240604 20:36:00

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