Britain On The Brink?
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Mark Dolan is joined by Political Strategist, Peter Barnes on Talk Breakfast, as he questions why the Chancellor still has a job after such poor economic growth.
Spanish Politician, Virginia Martinez, slams her government's plans to regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants and asylum seekers.
Plus Journalist, David Wooding, discusses the top stories of the day.
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| 0:00.0 | The home of common sense. This is talk. |
| 0:05.4 | Let's get reaction to all of the big stories from the fearless and outstanding political strategist Peter Barnes. |
| 0:11.8 | Good morning, Peter. |
| 0:12.9 | Good morning, Mark. How are you doing? |
| 0:14.5 | I'm very well, and I'd like to take this opportunity at nine minutes past eight on a Sunday morning |
| 0:20.1 | to wish all of the mothers out there, especially |
| 0:22.5 | mine, a very happy Mother's Day. My mother is an incredible lady. She's wise. She's beautiful. |
| 0:29.2 | She's loving. And I owe my life to her. So, mum, may God bless you. Is your mum still around, |
| 0:35.2 | Peter? Yes, she is. and she is probably one of the best |
| 0:38.5 | mum's because she puts up with me so put it that way. Listen she gave us Peter Barnes which is |
| 0:44.5 | her great legacy. And I apologise for that. She's owning it. She's owning it. So Mother's Day is very |
| 0:48.8 | important and we love all the mothers out there and my heart goes out to any of you listening |
| 0:53.2 | who don't have your |
| 0:54.4 | mums anymore and I know that they're deep in your hearts and in your memories. Let's talk about |
| 0:59.2 | a future prime minister of this country. It's becoming increasingly clear, Peter Barnes, that |
| 1:04.1 | Starmer is on borrowed time. He may well be gone by the end of the summer and the telegraph |
| 1:10.4 | suggesting that his replacement could take us |
| 1:13.2 | into a customs union with the EU, the price of which could be free movement. Be afraid, be very |
| 1:19.7 | afraid. Oh, be terrified, but I'm honestly surprised it's not happened yet. I mean, the literal day |
| 1:25.5 | after the general election, Angela Raina came out and said |
| 1:28.1 | Brexit is back on the table. So I'm honestly surprised that we haven't had even further integration |
| 1:33.4 | already. Basically, what a lot of us believed within SW1 was that the Starma government in the first |
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