Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 9:40 a.m.

Long: Housing minister Rachel Maclean claimed the government has built a record number of social rent homes. Tim and the team investigate. Following Lucy Letby\u2019s conviction, we look at how sentences for murder have changed over the past few decades. Plus after Liz Truss\u2019s speech this week defending her short stint as Prime Minister, Tim reminds us how her mini-budget raised borrowing costs and might have pushed up the national debt even more. And will 1 in 11 workers in England really work for the NHS by the middle of the next decade?

Presenter: Tim Harford\nSeries producer: Jon Bithrey\nProducers: Daniel Gordon, Natasha Fernandes, Nathan Gower, Charlotte McDonald,\nEditor: Richard Vadon\nProduction Co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele\nSound Engineer: Rod Farquhar