Is The Government Backing Down Over Benefits?
Plans to freeze some disability benefits could be abandoned.
Today, we look at the news that ministers could abandon plans to freeze some disability benefits.
Paddy, Laura and Henry discuss where the news came from, and what the plans were in the first place.
And, after a week in which Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced that he was getting rid of NHS England, they look at how he might be changing other parts of the health service.
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