Is Burnham's No 10 North working out?
<a href=' https://podfollow.com/politics-at-sam-and-annes'>👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne's on your podcast app👈</a> <p><strong>Is the battle over welfare reforms about to intensify? </strong></p><p>With the Milburn Report on youth unemployment just a week away, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy examine the growing pressure on Labour to tackle the issue.</p><p>And with the head of the civil service, Antonia Romeo, preparing Whitehall for a spending squeeze, the Conservatives are planning to set out how they would trim £36bn from the benefits bill.
Where will the money come from and who will bear the costs?</p><p>Elsewhere, Sam hears some rumblings that Number 10 North is already being branded a "government think tank".</p><p>Plus, does the weekly polling show signs of a Tory fightback and are Reform beginning to suffer?</p>
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