You're listening to Death in Westminster,

a podcast from Navarra Media, produced by Planet B productions.

Episode 3, The city. So we're just trying to cross to just go into the public subway by Westminster station.

It is actually so hectic around here.

Hello and welcome to Episode 3 of Death in Westminster.

I'm Kojo Karam, an academic and author,

and I'm here in the centre of London with my friend Dali Gabriel,

an expert in urban inequality.

We've been following the story of Jula Ramesh and how he was left to die in one of the world's richest cities.

We're in the underpass that connects Westminster Tube Station with Britain's houses of Parliament. We We started off here in Episode 1 because it's where Dula died back in 2018.

I wanted to know why Dula died surrounded by empty homes.

Episode 2 took us to the Cayman Islands to find out why so many of these homes are owned offshore

in tax havens and why the identity of those owners is so often hidden.

Now we can shift the blame to the offshore jurisdiction because actually it avoids

undertaking any real scrutiny in the NRM backyard. We heard how offshore ownership makes it harder for people in Britain to rent or buy a home.

But we also heard how if they wanted, politicians in London could change the law to stop that happening.

So why don't they?

Peter, thank you so much for giving us your time and expertise and teaching me so much about, yeah, how this mad system actually even works. Peter Gagan is a journalist who investigates money and power in Westminster.

When he turns up, Peter couldn't look more like a journalist if he tried, the kind of reporter

who spends his time digging around in the affairs of the powerful and getting up their noses.

He arrives on a bike wearing black jeans and a canvas jacket. He's got scruffy hair and a beard,

but he's taking us to one of the most exclusive political addresses in Westminster.

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