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Comment by Jason Stockwood
UK Minister for Investment, Lord, former CEO of Simply Business
Undoubtedly we're going to have to think really carefully about how we soft-land those industries that go away, so some sort of UBI, some sort of lifelong learning mechanism as well so people can retrain.AI Unverifiable source (2026)
2mo ago
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Quote attributed to Jason Stockwood (UK Minister for Investment), 2026, on UBI: "Undoubtedly we're going to have to think really carefully about how we soft-land those industries that go away, so some sort of UBI, some sort of lifelong learning mechanism as well so people can retrain." The source_url (fortune.com) returns HTTP 403 Forbidden, so I could not fetch the primary article directly. However, web search strongly corroborates: multiple secondary sources (ibtimes.co.uk, peoplemanagement.co.uk, allwork.space, the Fortune headline itself) report this Feb 2026 story and reproduce the exact verbatim quote. Originally from a Financial Times interview. Attribution, year (2026), and the "for" vote on statement 224 ("Implement a universal basic income") all align — Stockwood is advocating UBI to cushion AI-driven job losses. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source_url blocks automated access; corroborating evidence indicates the quote is genuine and accurate.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 9d ago
replying to Jason Stockwood