A year of Sunak, and why housing is eating our economy

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News, News Commentary, Government

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

As the Israel Gaza crisis continues, pressure grows on both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to back calls for a ceasefire. Sacha Deshmukh, Chief Executive of Amnesty International UK, explains why he supports it and what else needs to happen for it to be meaningful. He also has advice for how you can help, either through safe protest, or through donation. Nish and Coco also ‘celebrate’ Rishi Sunak’s year at Number 10, revealing their highs and lows of 12 months of Sunak.

Is the Government’s promise to end ‘no-fault’ evictions being kicked into the long grass? Nish and Coco try and work out the political manoeuvring, with the help of Toby Lloyd, who was the Downing Street housing adviser who persuaded Theresa May to promote the policy when she was Prime Minister. He also reveals what it was like to work inside the cramped rooms of Number 10…where there’s every chance that your meeting might be disturbed by the Chancellor’s wife coming home with the food shop!

Plus find out why Coco has been having a “fat bear week”. This week Nish and Coco’s great nominations for hero and villain of the week can be found on our social media platforms…find out by why bankers are winding up Nish, and why Coco’s fallen in love with a sheepdog.

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Guests:

Sacha Deshmukh, Chief Executive of Amnesty International UK

Toby Lloyd, Housing policy expert

Audio credits:

The Guardian

10 Downing Street

Parliamentlive.tv

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0:00.0	Hi, this is PotSafe for UK.
0:13.2	I'm Nishkumar.
0:14.4	And I'm Coco Khan.
0:15.4	And we'll be sitting in judgement on Rishi Sunak's first year as Prime Minister, a year
0:19.4	that's felt like 50.
0:21.0	The Chief Executive of Amnesty International UK will be here to tell us what you can do
0:25.3	to help those affected by the Israel Guards of Crisis.
0:28.4	Plus have landlords managed to sabotage plans to ban no fault evictions.
0:32.4	Hi, Nish.
0:34.4	Hi, Coco.
0:35.4	How are you?
0:36.4	I'm actually having, honestly, Nish, I'm having a really, I'm having a really great week,
0:39.4	actually.
0:40.4	Talk to me.
0:41.4	Well, are you familiar with the Fat Bear Week?
0:46.4	Are you aware of that?
0:49.4	The hell are you talking about?
0:51.4	What's the Fat Bear Week?
0:53.4	It's kind of, so before a bear goes into hibernation, they're at their fattest.
0:57.4	Yeah.
0:58.4	Because, obviously, that fat has to last them the whole winter, isn't it?
1:01.4	Yeah.
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