Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
When speaking to Tom Swarbrick, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Pat McFadden admitted that the current UK benefits system is ‘flawed’.
Labour have stated that there will be ‘no option for a life on benefits’ under their rule, and that they will require the 851,000 people not in employment, education, or training (NEETs) to attempt to find work or face losing their payments.
Simon Marks interrogates this idea alongside Labour MP for Feltham and Heston Seema Malhotra and 28-year-old PIP claimant Gigi El-Halaby.
How much compulsion to seek work should society require? Where would you draw the line?
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When speaking to Tom Swarbrick, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Pat McFadden admitted that the current UK benefits system is ‘flawed’.
Labour have stated that there will be ‘no option for a life on benefits’ under their rule, and that they will require the 851,000 people not in employment, education, or training (NEETs) to attempt to find work or face losing their payments.
Simon Marks interrogates this idea alongside Labour MP for Feltham and Heston Seema Malhotra and 28-year-old PIP claimant Gigi El-Halaby.
How much compulsion to seek work should society require? Where would you draw the line?
Listen to the full show on the all-new LBC App: app.af.lbc.co.uk/btnc/thenewlbcapp
#simonmarks #ukpolitics #LBC
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