Peter Walker

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Today in Focus · Burnham bounce: Labour overtakes Reform in polls – The Latest · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

And it's hard to know what the impact is going to be.

None of this will start till 2028.

You need money for it.

And it's also not clear how some of this will actually operate in practice.

The idea is you have a lot of 14 and 15 year olds who will get work experience.

But for all sorts of reasons, that's not easy to do.

A lot of workplaces just don't have the capacity to take large numbers of young people on.

So it's very much a work in progress.

This is just a broad brush so far.

But there's a lot of supportive quotes from industry and businesses who seem to think this is the right general way forward.

We're not really expecting much in terms of the policy because Burnham's people are pointing out it's still very, very early days.

What we're expecting is a speech to set out the fact that this is a problem that needs to be dealt with and has been put off for too long.

Burnham on the campaign trail was campaigning for the Mayfield seat, which he's now got.

talked very eloquently about the fact his dad has got uh alzheimer's and is in care so he's got personal experience of basically as you know a lot of viewers will know how patchy and often awful the care system is so he's basically saying this is

You know, we can't have another time where we look at this and pretend it's too difficult.

So he's saying there will be action, there will be difficult choices.

What those choices are remains to be seen.

It does seem likely on balance that there will be some element at least of people's estates or the amount of money that they owe or that they have left.

being used to pay some contribution towards the care, which has immediately brought up criticisms of, you know, what other parties like to call a death tax.

Well, this has torpedoed these reforms in the past.

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