Henry Zeffman
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15 recordings
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
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And this is the start of his second week as Prime Minister.
There are all sorts of ideas.
ideas, policies, issues where he has suggested that the state might want to spend more money, defence spending, on helping ease the cost of living, and so on and so on.
And so you start to look at them together and
Wonder whether, OK, that might well potentially mean quite a significant increase in taxes being levied by the state.
But then Andy Burnham also talks about wanting cross-party consensus on this.
And we've heard from the Conservatives this morning and they say we're very up for being part of cross-party talks on this.
But our red line is that new money for social care needs to be funded by cuts rather than by taxes or by borrowing.
And I think he will make a big show out of wanting that cross-party consensus because he knows, as politicians of all parties do, that if you have cross-party consensus at the moment of a big reform, then that reform is much more likely to be durable, to survive the inevitability that at some point...
whether it's in the distant future or the near future, a political party that is different to your own comes into government.
So if they're bought into it at this point, then they will keep it.
However, I do think there are different kinds of cross-party consensus here because a cross-party consensus that social care is broken and needs fixing, that already exists.
That is not a hard cross-party consensus to forge.
But a cross-party consensus on...
what a new social care model in England should look like.
I think that's a bit harder.
Though, again, I think I can see how a cross-party consensus could be forged.
But then a cross-party consensus on how to fund that new system.
Well, that is essentially saying you want a cross-party consensus on tax policy, on economic policy.
Well, we have political parties because people have very different opinions on how much of their money should be taxed, on what kinds of things the state should and should not do, on to what extent there ought to be a reward for success in work and to what extent the safety net should or should not be there.
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