Is Burnham’s No 10 North working out? – POLITICO

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Is the battle over welfare reforms about to intensify?

With the Milburn Report on youth unemployment just a week away, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy examine the growing pressure on Labour to tackle the issue.

And with the head of the civil service, Antonia Romeo, preparing Whitehall for a spending squeeze, the Conservatives are planning to set out how they would trim £36bn from the benefits bill. Where will the money come from and who will bear the costs?

Elsewhere, Sam hears some rumblings that Number 10 North is already being branded a “government think tank”.

Plus, does the weekly polling show signs of a Tory fightback and are Reform beginning to suffer?