Welfare Bill Passes, But At What Cost?

福利法案通过,但代价几何?

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2025-07-02

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Today, MPs have narrowly voted in favour of the government’s welfare bill. The controversial legislation passed after a series of last minute concessions by the government, but 49 Labour MPs still rebelled. Adam and Chris discuss what changes were made, how the government failed to manage the rebellion, and the political blow the prime minister has taken. Plus, three former senior staff at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. A seperate investigation was opened into the senior leadership team at the Countess of Chester hospital after Lucy Letby was convicted of murder and attempted murder in 2023. Adam is joined by BBC Social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bit.ly/3ENLcS1 Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Anna Harris. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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  • And that is why we're doing a slightly later episode of Newscast on Tuesday

  • because MPs were voting for the first time on the government's welfare proposals.

  • The proposals went through, but with a massive rebellion by Labour-backed benchers,

  • the biggest of Keir Starmer's first year in office,

  • and also as a result of him junking a huge chunk of what the reforms were.

  • It's been really quite a day in parliament and we will catch up with Chris Mason to find out what it's been like there on the ground and actually what this means.

  • for Keir Starmer's next few years as Prime Minister on this episode of Newscast.

  • Hello,

  • it's Adam in the newscast studio and I can hear Chris dashing into the newscast studio at Westminster.

  • Oh Hi,

  • it's Chris you're on we're recording right now brilliant good So I just watched you doing the 10 o'clock news and you were in full on this is a historic day in Parliament mode now I think I know the answer to why why you were doing that but just explain to newscasters why sort of you went to that level today

  • because I found myself with that sort of being transported back to Brexit.

  • Well, yeah.

  • I mean, firstly, all that stuff where, you know,

  • you and I first started podcasting together with Laura and Katya and all of that and those sort of Brexit nights of just extraordinary kind of jeopardy and everything just playing out in public.

  • And then a little more recently.

  • three years ago, shortly after I started this job,