Could Starmer make Britain “a dumping ground” for migrants?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Penny Mordaunt, the Leader of the House of Commons, has accused the Leader of the Opposition of having no balls. No, she seriously did - comparing Sir Keir Starmer to flip flop beach Ken.
But beach Ken, as it happens, is currently talking to Europol at The Hague trying to work out a plan to stop small boats by treating people smugglers like terrorists.
The Tories say it will make us a dumping ground for migrants. We discuss.
And as former presidential candidate Mitt Romney quits the US Senate, we ask what this tells us about US politics.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.3 | I think the Labour leader is Beach Ken. Beach Ken stands for nothing on shifting sands in his flip-flops staring out to sea, doing nothing |
| 0:22.7 | constructive to stop small boats or grow the economy. And when we examine his weak record on union |
| 0:30.5 | demands, on border control, on protecting the public and stopping small boats, we discover |
| 0:36.0 | that like Beach Ken, he has zero balls. |
| 0:39.3 | That was Penny Mordant comparing the leader of the opposition to Barbie's fellow Ken. |
| 0:46.7 | I'm not sure how insulting she thinks it's going to be for Keir to find out he's been compared to Ryan Gosling. |
| 0:55.1 | But Ryan Gosling is obviously currently visiting the Hague with Yvette Cooper, Shadow, Home Secretary. |
| 1:03.8 | Is he? |
| 1:04.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.1 | More of that to come. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.7 | Ryan Gosling or Keir Stama is in the Hague as part of a series of international trips he's doing over the course of the next week. |
| 1:15.5 | And he has announced a policy which has been pretty unusual for the Labour leader as to how to deal with the small boats crisis which has gripped our politics. |
| 1:25.8 | And it's already generated an almighty backlash. |
| 1:29.4 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:33.9 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:36.6 | It's Emily. It's Lewis. |
| 1:38.3 | And a little later, we'll be talking about Mitt Romney, the Utah senator, who at the age of 76, has decided that he will be stepping down. He'll be retiring. |
| 1:48.5 | He was the one Republican thorn in the side during both impeachments of Donald Trump. |
| 1:55.7 | Sounds a funny thing to say, but yes, there were two, who voted in favour of impeaching the president not once but twice. |
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