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The Week: Is Labour Ready To Talk About Welfare Reform?
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Today, Chris Mason joins us from the SNP party conference, where the party mood seems, once again, very high. Adam and Chris are joined by Baroness Ayesha Hazarika, Labour peer and former political advisor, and Times columnist Fraser Nelson to look back at this year’s conference season to see what it can tell us about where each party stands. We also discuss whether Labour MPs might be ready to back welfare reform ahead of the review of young people and work conducted by Alan Milburn. Apply to run with Adam (or just ch...
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Hello, as promised, here is the breaking news about the last 5K of my 500K video. in Andy Burnham's first 100 days running challenge, and I'm having to break the news to Chris down the line
because he's at the SMP conference in Aberdeen. Well, this is quite something, Adam. I come to think of it, I was just thinking as I came here to the SMP conference
that if you and I had jogged from our usual newscast birth to this final conference of the party conference season, you'd have sorted out the whole challenge in one go. Yeah, I think probably with quite a lot of damage
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