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Hello, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast

that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming of Hollywood and Westminster,

which right now all the stories

feel very election dominated.

So I am Phil Sim, I'm a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament, and this is another one

of our manifesto deep dive episodes.

We have read the manifestos of all the parties so you don't have to, and we'll be combing

through them to bring you the key policies ahead of the election.

So joining me to discuss the social policies here are Georgia Roberts at Westminster.

Hello, Phil. Hello.

Hello. And Lindsay Buse here at Allerood.

Hello.

So hopefully people have heard our previous episodes along this format.

We've done the economy, we've done health, we've done

climate. This feels like a bit of the What's Everything Else episode because there is quite a wide

range of social justice style policies ranged across the manifestos and they have quite,

it's an area where there are quite big dividing lines between the parties. So hopefully this is going to be instructive for people if it is going to be a big one for Control F for us trying to go through the manifestos, finding all of the different bits.

So I wanted to kick this one off talking about welfare policy because this is, it's a really big one actually between Labour and the Tories.

And we've seen that actually, some of the head-to-head debates between Kier Starrmer and Rishi Sunak recently.

The Conservatives are really big on the idea of reining in spending on welfare.

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