17/10/2026

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Isabel debates the upcoming Budget with the chair of the Treasury Select Committee, Labour's Dame Meg Hillier and the former Conservative Treasury minister Dame Harriett Baldwin. Two veterans of previous attempts to reform the benefits system debate how it should be done now: the former Conservative Work and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith and Alex Zatman, who was a special adviser to Labour's Liz Kendall when she was Work and Pensions Secretary. How prepared is the UK for a crisis that could cause food shortages? The Labour peer and chairman of Iceland Foods, Richard Walker discusses this with the chief executive of the Soil Association, Helen Browning, who has a farm in Wiltshire. And Andy…