Cheat Sheet | Mahmood defends asylum reforms, UN backs Trump's Gaza plan, ticket touting banned
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Home secretary Shabana Mahmood is defending asylum reforms some Labour MPs are calling "cruel and inhumane". Also, the UN has passed Trump's peace plan for Gaza.
And the government is set to ban ticket touts reselling tickets way above face value.
Sophy and Wilf talk about how that's happened following a Competition and Markets Authority report which said Ticketmaster "may have misled Oasis fans" with unclear pricing. Although not about reselling, it did lead to promises to make sales more transparent.
Everything you need to know, minus the doomscrolling, in just 10 minutes.
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| 1:01.5 | Hello, you are listening to Cheat Sheet, the podcast that gets you up to speed with what you need |
| 1:05.8 | to know in the day ahead without the doom scrolling. I'm Sophie Ridge. And I'm Wilfrid Frost. It's Tuesday the 18th of |
| 1:12.2 | November. Here's what's coming up. So some Labour MPs are calling the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's |
| 1:17.8 | new asylum reforms cruel and inhumane. Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza has been approved by the |
| 1:25.1 | UN. And reselling tickets to sports events or gigs above face value is about to be banned by the government. |
| 1:35.4 | So we talked a little bit about the Home Secretary Shibana Mahmood's new plans to reform the |
| 1:40.8 | asylum system yesterday. She announced them in Parliament and took questions in Parliament |
| 1:46.2 | about it yesterday and it was pretty heated. Of course, the headline of these new reforms involves |
| 1:52.0 | making it a 20-year period rather than a five-year period for refugees to seek permanent status here, |
| 1:59.7 | making it harder to get that status in the first place, |
| 2:02.2 | reforming how we interpret the ECHR's rules on family, the right to a family life, |
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