Alex Forsyth

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2,054 appearances 20 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

Alex Forsyth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Newscast · Andy Burnham (Almost) Wins · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And he kept saying, you've got to take into account how this benefit, what it's meant to be for, which is effectively to support people in their lives and to support people to be able to live independently and participate in the ways that they want to. voice-verified

So, you know, this is speculation. voice-verified

I make it totally clear. voice-verified

But the ideas that have been kicked around are things like, you know, tailoring it to make sure that it voice-verified

It somehow provides the actual support that is needed by a certain individual as opposed to, you know, the way that it currently works. voice-verified

But I don't think that he gave an awful lot away about exactly what he's thinking around this was. voice-verified

I think he was quite careful about it. voice-verified

And of course, I think he's probably quite conscious that he's been tasked to do this review under one prime minister. voice-verified

And then it will be another one that comes up with or accepts or not any proposals that he comes up with for actual change. voice-verified

It's interesting because on that point, what he did say... voice-verified

He was so careful. voice-verified

I totally agree with Ben in the report and in his interviews to put it in the wider context, not just of the welfare system, but also social care and the health systems and the pressure on the NHS. voice-verified

But what he did say or recognise, I think, was that it was important to make sure the system was financially sustainable. voice-verified

So this kind of suggestion that, you know, it had to be affordable in the long term. voice-verified

And, you know, that has become sort of part of the conversation. voice-verified

And Andy Burnham, who's been asked about that, and of course he does matter because he's the guy that will oversee any changes that do come to the welfare system. voice-verified

He's been really careful to say that he doesn't think crude cuts to the welfare bill are the right approach. voice-verified

Stephen Timms reflected that today and said, while he hadn't spoken to Andy Burnham directly about this piece of work, there will be no crude cuts or crude proposals in whatever they come up with in the autumn. voice-verified

But given all of that, voice-verified

This is where the Conservatives are choosing to criticise the government's approach. voice-verified

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