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360: Is Keir Starmer the new Enoch Powell?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Esther Krakue, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the PM’s ‘island of strangers’ speech, the ‘very Brexity’ books that landed a pensioner in a police cell and why men should not play women’s football.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Spike podcast. I'm Fraser Myers, Deputy Editor of Spiked.

0:04.0

Delighted to be joined as ever by Spike's editor, Tom Slater.

0:06.5

Hello.

0:07.1

And for the first time, special guest, writer and commentator, Esther Krecko.

0:10.4

Welcome.

0:10.9

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

0:12.3

So we've got loads to talk about on today's show.

0:14.4

We'll be discussing Keir Starmers' anti-immigration turn, the man arrested for possessing brexity things, and the footballer who knows what a woman is and was subsequently banned for it.

0:26.9

Tom, do you want to tell us a little bit about the exciting event we've got coming up before we get into all that?

0:31.6

No, absolutely. There are still tickets left to our very special event that we're holding in a couple weeks' time.

0:36.3

In Westminster, it's on Wednesday the 28th of May.

0:39.7

Andrew Doyle is going to be joining me on stage to discuss his new book, The End of Woke.

0:43.9

It's going to be a great night.

0:44.9

We're going to have discussion.

0:45.9

There'll be a few drinks laid on.

0:46.9

You might even be able to get a signed copy of Andrew's book as well.

0:50.1

This is exclusively for Spike supporters, people who donate to the website. So if you're already a Spike supporter, go over to the site now, log in, you can buy your ticket.

0:58.3

If you're not already a Spike supporter now is obviously the perfect time to sign up.

1:01.0

You can come to this event, future events, be had a comment on the articles, all kinds of other perks.

1:05.5

So if you're interested in signing up to come to this event, go to spiked hyphenonline.com forward slash supporters. We hope to see you there.

1:15.3

Keir Starmer gave a major speech this week on immigration. He said he wants a clean break

1:20.7

with how things have been dealt with in the past, where various politicians have said one thing

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