Anoosh Chakelian

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

He's talked about that in the past.

The way that you'd pay for that presumably would be you'd have to do something with pensions.

So 55% of the welfare bill actually goes to pensioners.

This is something that maybe...

papers who decry the welfare bill don't often make obvious, suggesting that it's young people.

Yeah, so there's that aspect of it.

And Pat McFadden, I know, is aware of that.

I interviewed Alan Milburn about the Neats Review fairly recently, and he didn't go as far as to say it, but he was basically like, this is a very interesting political choice that we still have the triple lock on.

and we don't have the same kind of guarantee for young people.

So I don't think it's something that they could do necessarily in their first term, but looking at the triple lock, looking at the intergenerational imbalance of the way that the welfare budget and other spending is sort of stacked up, I think will definitely be on the minds of these politicians if they want to do something that could actually fund

what would be very expensive social care reform, but it's very much needed because it's the thing that means that the NHS doesn't function properly.

And so, yeah, I think that's one to watch.

Yeah, you're absolutely right that it touches everyone's lives, even if you don't know anyone who needs social care whatsoever in your life, because councils pay for social care.

So councils are paying nearly all of that.

Some councils are paying nearly all of their budget towards their...

duties their legal duty to provide social care which means all of the other things that you expect from your council are now seen as nice to haves that they can't afford and so all of these things that people are now saying about broken Britain and the public realm crumbling and you know the library's closing and everything around you seems to be a bit worse than when you were growing up that's basically down to the social care system not working properly so I think like you say if you can get that right then you can change a

Yeah, I think that's right.

And it's interesting because everyone knows what the Chancellor does and what the Home Secretary does and all of these things.

But I think those jobs will actually, if Burnham does what he says that he wants to, those jobs will be kind of weakened under this administration because we already know we're going to have a beefed up Prime Minister's office.

where, you know, he is basically, it's weird, it's sort of half centralizing, half devolving.

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