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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

Britain's summer of discontent | Cover Story with Anoosh Chakelian

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Asylum protests. NHS strikes. A faltering economy. Is the Labour government facing a summer of discontent?


Last year, riots sparked by the brutal murder of three young girls at a dance class in Southport rocked the UK. Rioters targeted hotels housing asylum seekers, wrongly connecting the murders to Muslim immigration. Now, asylum protests persist.


At the same time, the government faces strike action from NHS doctors, a struggling economy and political threats from both left and right.


Rachel Cunliffe is joined by Anoosh Chakelian and George Eaton.


Read: One year on, tensions still circle Britain’s asylum-seeker hotels; Labour’s summer of discontent


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Asylum protests. NHS strikes. The New Statesman.

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Asylum protests.

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NHS strikes.

0:42.5

A faltering economy.

0:45.8

Is the Labour government facing a summer of discontent?

0:49.3

I'm Rachel Cunneleth, and this is the New Statesman podcast.

0:57.9

Last year, riots sparked by the brutal murder of three young girls at a dance class in Southport rocked the UK.

1:03.6

Riot has targeted hotels housing asylum seekers wrongly connecting the murders to immigration.

1:11.6

Now, asylum protests persist and Anusha Kellyan has been reporting from the targeted hotels to find out what's going on. At the same time, the government faces strike action from NHS doctors, a struggling economy

1:16.6

and political threats from both the left and the right.

1:19.6

George Eaton has written an extended feature taking in the pressures on the government.

1:23.6

Together, Anush and George's reporting forms the basis of this week's new statesman magazine cover

1:29.3

the summer of discontent and George and Anish are with me now hello hello

1:33.6

Hello um Anish let's just start with you because you um actually went on the ground to a couple of

1:40.0

the hotels that have become hotspots for riots you went to to Epping and you also went to Diss in Norfolk.

1:47.3

Before we get into kind of what you found on the basis of your feature,

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