Anoosh Chakelian

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Pod Save the UK · Burnham’s Britain & Cabinet Pic ‘n’ Mix w/ Anoosh Chakelian · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

And a big part of the NEETs agenda is sort of reorientating our education and further education system into helping people into more vocational pathways.

But it's also about cutting the number of young people who are on benefit and out of work and not looking for work because they mainly, in the most part, are mentally unwell.

So the NEETs sort of agenda is wrapped up, I think, and maybe this is perhaps slightly underappreciated, it's wrapped up in a welfare reform agenda.

And Andy Burnham and his team have said they're four square behind that NEETs review and implementing its recommendations.

So I think there is going to probably be another fight down the line.

The hope for those who want to bring in these kind of changes is that last time they tried to attempt these welfare reforms, they basically framed it as a we want to cut the bill.

And they were doing all sorts of sums to try and make it fill in the hole that the OBR had given them.

And they want to make a different argument this time, a moral argument, one about opportunity and how it's more compassionate to young people to help them rather than leave them languishing.

And there is some merit in that.

And perhaps that's something that would sort of help carry Labour MPs along with them if they try and implement reforms again.

And I don't think they're going to be doing things that they were doing last time or trying to do last time, which was sort of, you know, if you

I don't know.

You know, it just sounded so awful to people, the cuts to Pip in particular, where it was like, oh, well, if you can't dress, if you can dress yourself, but you can't walk across the room, then you get your benefits cut.

You know, it was such an obvious way of putting people off and constituents were writing into their MPs saying, I'm going to be affected by this because I don't cross past this threshold on this.

Or, you know, I'm able to do this, but I'm not able to do that.

And I don't think, I think they're going to avoid that kind of fight.

Yeah, I think, well, yeah, it's interesting to link the two things because, like you say, Burnham has been committed to social care reform for ages.

This is one of the things that is consistent throughout his whole political career.

He wants social care basically to be free at the point of use in the same way that the NHS is.

So a national care service.

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