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Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, and this is Politics from the New Statesman, where every Thursday we

bring you the latest from Westminster and beyond. Today I'm joined by our political editor, Andrew

Marr, and later in the episode, we'll have the New Statesman's business editor, will done with us to discuss Britain's work problem.

Andrew, let's begin with Keir Stama's speech to reset the state, which has just happened before we're recording this.

He said it's become flabby and overcautious.

You wrote ahead of the speech that there was a feeling in Team Starmer

that we have a state that is, quote, both oversized and underpowered.

Were you expecting this really quite big announcement, the scrappy of NHS England?

Candidly, yes.

Not necessarily NHS England, but I knew there was, there is going to be

a butchery of arm's-length, so-called quangos, regulatory bodies and so on. That's been clear for a few

days now, that they wanted this to be radical and a big, shocking shift of direction. The payment

systems regulator is the only other one we know about at this stage, which has gone,

but there are plenty more to come.

Every Whitehall Department has been asked to bring a list of regulators and quangos that they don't believe are absolutely essential to the running of the British state into number 10,

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