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🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Keir Starmer says the Chancellor is going nowhere, but have the very public tears of Rachel Reeves left the impression of a government in crisis as it approaches its first birthday?
Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with Matthew Parris and Manveen Rana
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0:00.0 | Fulham Pier is |
0:01.0 | Being sported for choice |
0:02.1 | In a Riverside Food Hall |
0:03.4 | And playing with interactive art |
0:04.9 | Tree Pose with Riverviews |
0:06.6 | Fairly laughing at local comedians |
0:08.2 | Kids dancing at a toddler disco |
0:10.0 | Claring Checkmate with the Nogroni |
0:11.9 | Flat whites and River strolls |
0:13.5 | Sampling Chef Adam Bay at seasonal menus |
0:15.8 | Watching rowers go head to head |
0:17.7 | Recharging with a luxurious |
0:19.3 | Riverside staycation |
0:20.5 | Slowing down to enjoy what |
0:22.8 | matters most. London's most exciting new riverside destination is now open. Visit full and peer |
0:28.9 | dot com. Hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day |
0:41.2 | and the stuff that's even more important than politics too, from a crying chancellor to a year of |
0:45.2 | Starma to why Matthew Paris's hallucinations lean to the right. And joining me now, no, I'm not |
0:50.8 | tripping, they're really here. It's Matthew Paris. Hello, Matthew. Hello. |
1:10.8 | And as you'll tell, from the way, I'm looking at bits of donut off my teeth still, Manvin Rana. I'm Vanne. Hello. Hello. Yeah, very good. What are we eaten today? I like being associated with donuts. Yeah, very chocolatey. Mini Benio. A mini... Benio. I don't know that word. It's a French donut, basically. |
1:13.7 | Yeah, donut without a hole, but I still very much approve. |
2:18.7 | I was told off the other week for never sounding grateful enough when Mandeveen brings us snacks and treats. So just to say, Mandarvine, I'm very grateful. How lovely. Matthew, are you also grateful? I'm terrifically grateful and honestly, if people could be in the studio with us, they could see from our faces and slightly smudged mouths how grateful we are. Yeah, okay. I'm going to have to ask questions that invite long answers. Sorry, I have a chance to finish this. Let's start inevitably by talking about what's going on with Rachel Rees. Kistarma has finally done what he probably should have done yesterday and defended his chancellor. He's been speaking this morning and announcing his very exciting 10-year NHS plan, more of that in a moment. But he was asked why he appeared to not notice that Rachel Reeves was in tears next to him at Prime Minister's questions yesterday. This is what he said. The PMQ is pretty wired. It goes from question to question. And I'm literally up-down, question, looking at who's asked me a question, thinking about my response and getting up and answering it. And so it wasn't just yesterday. And no Prime Minister Everers had side conversations during PMQs. It does happen in other debates when there's a bit more time. But in PMQs, it is bang, bang, bang. That's what it was yesterday. And therefore, I was probably the last to appreciate anything else going on in the |
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