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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the spike podcast I'm Fraser Meyers and with me this week as ever we have |
0:05.6 | Spikes editor Tom Slater and we're delighted to be joined by a spike columnist Luke Gitos |
0:11.3 | Coming up on today's show the Civil War in the Tory Party, Boris Johnson at the COVID |
0:17.2 | inquiry and the neofudalism of COP28. |
0:23.0 | So the Tory Party is starting to tear itself apart over immigration. |
0:27.4 | We had the resignation this week of former immigration minister Robert Genrick. |
0:31.3 | Now this is striking because he was seen as a bit of a soft touch on immigration. |
0:34.9 | He was almost sent to the home office to keep tabs on Suella Braverman to moderate her sort of right-wing influences. |
0:42.0 | And now he's accusing Rishi Sunak |
0:43.7 | and the government of being too soft, |
0:46.2 | saying that their new revised Rwanda policy |
0:48.7 | is just not going to work. |
0:51.0 | Tom, what have you made at this? It was always going to be a difficult week for the government, but they managed to turn it into |
0:55.4 | an absolute cluster, it's incredible, really. |
0:58.1 | I mean, the amount of controversy that was already going into this with internal dissent within the party about |
1:04.1 | whether or not the in tandem the kind of reforms to legal migration and the changes to the |
1:09.7 | Rwanda treaty and also the new legislation for Rwanda to try and get that policy off the ground as it were. |
1:15.9 | That was always going to be a quite bitter dispute but it's completely spun out of control as you say |
1:19.3 | with the resignation of Genric which is mildly hilarious because the the fact he was this very close to Sue, |
1:25.0 | out very much in his kind of mold, if you like, very much kind of centrist technocratic |
1:29.8 | figures until very recently, but has seemingly gone kind of full national conservative |
1:34.2 | over the course of the past couple of months and is now outside the tent pissing in. |
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