Alex Versailles

Because cast your mind back not very long, and you'll remember the government did try to reform the welfare system and met a lot of resistance from its own backbenchers, particularly when it came to changes to personal independence payments, because the concern among Labour backbenchers was that

that support would be removed from some of the most vulnerable in society.

So they pushed back hard on it.

Now the government is working up, it tells us, a package of welfare reform.

And I should say ministers would point to some stuff they're doing already to try and get young people in work.

But when you're talking about wholesale welfare reform, that wasn't mentioned in the King's speech, which is when the government sets out the plans that it's going to come forward with legislation for for the next year.

So I think...

What that welfare reform needs to look like is going to be the absolute key.

And then can the government enact it is the second part of that.

But that's what I mean.

That's one of the criticisms of sometimes of inquiries or reviews is the time it takes for anything to change as a consequence, because your first look at what happened in Rotherham with child sexual exploitation was what, 2015.

So it has been 10 years and you're now 10 years on.

You did that short, sharp audit last year.

We're still awaiting another inquiry into what's going on with this.

You know, when do the people who are potential victims in this case see the change that's going to prevent it?

Do you find it frustrating and whose fault is it?

But presumably it also then needs the political will to enact whatever the inquiry finds.

And sometimes that is the point at which it runs out of steam, right?

I mean, do politicians need to...

commit to delivering what it is that people like you tell them they need to do to solve some of these really significant social issues?