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Burnham’s Backbenchers Won’t Have The ‘Backbone’ To Cut Welfare | Mel Stride MP
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8:29Now Playing“[Labour have] backbenchers who are pretty far off to the left and, I’m afraid, believe in spending more on welfare, for example, rather than less.”
Should Andy Burnham become prime minister, he will still be “in hock” to his backbenchers, so will struggle to cut welfare, says shadow chancellor Mel Stride MP.
Mel Stride MP was speaking to Kate McCann and Stig Abell on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live every Monday-Thursday from 6am-10am.
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