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2: HEADLINE: UK Political Realignment and the Migration Crisis GUEST NAME: Joseph Sternberg SUMMARY:Joseph Sternberg discusses the UK's political realignment following the Conservative Party's 14-year misrule. Kemi Badenoch aims to revive the Tories with Tha

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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HEADLINE: UK Political Realignment and the Migration Crisis GUEST NAME: Joseph Sternberg SUMMARY:Joseph Sternberg discusses the UK's political realignment following the Conservative Party's 14-year misrule. Kemi Badenoch aims to revive the Tories with Thatcherite economic policies and a strong stance on welfare reform, prioritizing work and fairness. However, the Tories lack credibility on the highly controversial issue of illegal immigration across the English Channel, allowing Nigel Farage's Reform party to gain ground. The migration problem remains intractable due to high costs and lack of political incentive.
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0:30.0

This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

0:36.7

I welcome Joseph Sternberg, my good colleague. He's a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He's based in London.

0:38.9

He writes political economics.

0:41.2

And momentarily, Joe will introduce us to the wild, wild world of parliament.

0:47.2

These days, there's not two parties.

0:49.7

There's three or more.

0:51.6

And they're not one personality.

0:53.3

There's several.

0:56.5

Joe does us the favor of featuring Kemmy Badenak, who is the leader of the Conservative Party called the Tories,

1:03.9

elected after the bump of Johnson, followed by the bump of several more in between Johnson and now.

1:13.8

But what we're looking at here is leadership for the future for the Conservative Party

1:18.6

that is badly wounded at the polling the last time, and also after what Joseph reports is

1:25.3

13 or 14 years of misrule.

1:29.2

Joe, a very good evening to you.

1:30.6

What do we need to know about Ms. Bajdnock and her remarks?

1:34.0

Most recently at the conference the Tories held every year there's a tradition of the parties coming together.

1:41.8

The Tories were together last weekend.

1:44.7

What have we learned from her remarks?

1:46.7

Good evening to you.

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