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Morning Glory

BBC Backlash

Morning Glory

Ricky Freelove

News, Labour, Government, Current Affairs, British News, Politics, Immigration, Talk, Phone In, Daily News, News Commentary, Reform Uk, Conservatives, Debate, Uk News, Speech Radio, Unknown, News & Politics

4.4741 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0

The home of common sense. This is talk.

0:05.5

Half of the public said that Britain's culture was changing too fast.

0:10.6

Worryingly for the Prime Minister, Reform UK voters, many in Labour's traditional heartlands were most worried about the cultural state of the nation,

0:19.3

suggesting that Nigel Farage's reform UK stand to

0:22.5

make big gains at the next election. This was all down to research from King's College, London,

0:30.1

and pollsters Ipsos. Let's get reaction now from social policy analyst Dr. Rakib Esan.

0:37.0

Rakeeb, do the public's concerns around immigration and our

0:40.7

rapidly changing society surprise you? Absolutely not, Mark. I think that we've seen, what we have

0:48.3

seen in recent years is unprecedented levels of immigration, the so-called Boris wave.

0:56.0

Many of the migrants originating from countries

0:59.0

characterized by religious fundamentalism,

1:02.0

hotbeds of sectarian strife and communal conflict.

1:07.0

And on top of that, we have the ongoing small boats emergency, which in my view poses a fundamental threat to female public safety.

1:17.6

So we have an utterly dysfunctional asylum system. And what we have seen in recent years, Mark, is a massive demographic change.

1:25.6

And with that, come cultural anxiety. So many of these findings aren't really a surprise to change. And with that, come cultural anxieties. So many of these

1:29.6

findings aren't really a surprise to me. And I think it is a shame, though, that cultural anxieties

1:33.9

are on the rise, because that very much suggests that much of the British public, they really

1:39.1

crave a sense of stability and belonging. Definitely, there is a crisis, isn't there, in Britain's multicultural

1:46.3

experiment? You know, the UK is a multi-ethnic country, not necessarily an issue, but divided

1:53.6

communities, people living parallel lives, not speaking the language, not following the rule of

1:57.8

law, sometimes not active in the economy. That is definitely a failure. How do we fix it, Rakib?

2:04.1

Where would you start? I think first...

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