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Oct 9, 2026
Alex ForsythHOST
Tim joined the party after many years as a Conservative member.
Alex ForsythHOST
He founded the Conservative Home website and the Centre for Social Justice think tank, and he was Chief of Staff to Ian Duncan Smith and Special Advisor to Boris Johnson during his premiership.
Alex ForsythHOST
Soodley, please welcome your Any Questions panel.
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George LookerHOST
Prior to joining the Centre for Early Childhood, Christian was the CEO of international anti-human trafficking NGO Justice and Care.
George LookerHOST
And before that, he ran the influential think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, focusing on the root causes of poverty.
George LookerHOST
He was also on the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, and served as a special advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron, during which time he focused on the Life Chances strategy, getting earlier support for families, especially those who needed it most.
George LookerHOST
Under his leadership, the center has produced the Shaping Us framework, a piece of work that's become one of the clearest attempts to translate the evidence on early childhood development into something that the whole country can act on, and an explainer series of animations that are now used by practitioners and organizations across the UK, including, uh, at BabyZone hubs.
Camilla TomineyHOST
She's written for The Telegraph telling everybody how bad she thinks Andy Burnham is faring, and she's made this suggestion that the Conservatives will block jobless from spending benefits on alcohol and indeed cigarettes.
Camilla TomineyHOST
This is what I would call kind of like Centre for Social Justice, sort of Duncan Smith type policymaking in terms of we can't increase the benefits bill simply for it to be spent on booze and fags.
Camilla TomineyHOST
And I've got a kind of personal affinity with that because I've previously made the point on the Daily Tea, the notion of giving PIP payments to addicts is just preposterous.
Camilla TomineyHOST
You're killing people with kindness because they take that money from the state straight to the off license or in other cases to their drug dealer, and they kill themselves more quickly, and it's funded by the taxpayer.
Lucy PowellGUEST
And I'm really, really focused on that task.
Nick FerrariHOST
Did I mention the numbers are going up? Let's get Ben Gregg, head of welfare at the Centre for Social Justice, into the conversation.
Nick FerrariHOST
And the idea that Ian Duncan Smith was looking at this more than ten years ago, put forward by the Conservatives, it's the same old Tory, same old story.
Nick FerrariHOST
Your reaction.
Ben GreggGUEST
Well, I think that's basically the issue that the Conservatives haven't really set out and haven't worked out.
Ben GreggGUEST
I think the big problem that we currently have in the welfare system around long-term worklessness is not people who are sat on the kind of... um mainstream benefits that this would tackle but people who are moving into particularly sort of health related benefits um and benefits with no work requirements which this wouldn't apply to and so the main question around workability is the risk that what you end up doing is actually pushing more people into those health benefits that are further um from the workplace and that's really the issue that is driving most of the caseloads and that's the issue that needs addressing
Nick FerrariHOST
OK, Ben Gregg, you're Head of Welfare at the Centre for Social Justice.
Nick FerrariHOST
I will end there.
Iain Duncan SmithGUEST
And the benefits therefore get given to them.
Iain Duncan SmithGUEST
And we've come up with a proposal at the Centre for Social Justice, which I see that the conservatives have adopted, which is don't pay the sickness benefit.
Julia Hartley-BrewerHOST
Yep.
Iain Duncan SmithGUEST
Say, "We're gonna help you get back to work," because work is the best cure for anxiety-
Nick de SouzaHOST
that pushed for whole-scale privatization of state utilities, something the public seemed to accept by voting in Thatcher three times.
Nick de SouzaHOST
The Center for Social Justice more recently pushed for the introduction of universal credit, perhaps concentrating the public mindset over what to do about the benefits bill and welfare dependency.
Nick de SouzaHOST
According to the London School of Economics, the Center for Social Justice established a powerful public discourse about a broken Britain and shifted the focus of poverty from financial issues to family breakdown and addiction.
Nick de SouzaHOST
Left-wing think tanks have also shifted public opinion over time.
Nick de SouzaHOST
The Fabian Society has long advocated for a generous welfare state.
Matt HeathHOST
Oh, that's right.
Matt HeathHOST
There was this religious guy from the Centre of Social Justice that appeared on BBC News, and it's played a lot online, but his name's Christian Guy.
Matt HeathHOST
So it's like Christian Guy.
speaker_4HOST
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speaker_1NARRATOR
Enjoy the podcast.
JPHOST
Hi there and welcome and good evening to this tonight's view, points of view with me, Ramod, I'm JP, we've got Liz, we've got Oliver and we're looking at this quite incendiary article that was published by the Daily Telegraph based upon the Centre for Social Justice, which doesn't sound exactly what you think it is.
JPHOST
Because it's from Ian Duncan Smith, the guy that stood up in front of the Tory conference at 14 and was Thatcher's darling, you know, the guy from Yorkshire, which is quite strange because he's not really, has the attitude of many Yorkshire people.
JPHOST
But he's the former Conservative leader and he's like many of these people in think tanks trying to solve the problems by coming up with sort of ideas and lobby for them.
Steve BakerHOST
You guys are making me feel incredibly old because you're talking about welfare without referring to what happened pre-2010.
Steve BakerHOST
And I'm old enough to remember volunteering for the Centre for Social Justice in about 2008-9 to help them work out how their policies could be deployed.
Steve BakerHOST
That was great stuff.
Steve BakerHOST
But they published a report called Breakdown Britain, which was about a huge report about all about how the welfare state wasn't working for the most vulnerable and how we couldn't afford it.