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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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Reform UK's new justice adviser doesn't agree with everything Nigel Farage says - does it matter? And can Farage keep tabs on his growing entourage?
Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with Seb Payne and Charlotte Ivers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin and now we're going to be unpacking the politics for the day and the stuff that's even more important than politics from reform Farage and his entourage to Liz Truss being back in the spotlight. And with me now, my entourage. It's the Sunday, it's from the Times and the Sunday Times. It's Seb Payne. I said. Good morning, Hugoougar. Good to have you with me. And Charlotte Ivers, hello, Charlotte. Good morning. I'm delighted to be in your entourage. What a privilege. I'm delighted to have an entourage. It makes me feel very important. You're the, you're the Liam Gallagher to our bonehead. Yeah, I guess that sort of works. |
| 0:39.8 | I always find fascinating when you see people who have entourages. |
| 0:43.3 | Like, you know, if you're around at some sort of like celebrity event and there's somebody with an entourage, and then you see a member of that entourage in a different circumstance. |
| 0:47.1 | Members of the entourage have their own entourage. |
| 0:49.1 | Right. |
| 0:49.5 | Like a tree. |
| 0:50.2 | It's an entourage tree. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.7 | Who's in your entourage, Seb? |
| 1:11.9 | Charlotte. And Seb's mind. We both think that we're the telemarked. But no, it turns out. Forever. It's really awkward when we go to the pub and buy a drink, though, because we never know who has to go first thing, because we're entourage in each other. Forever holding doors open for each other in a subservient way. |
| 1:13.2 | There was a fantastic story. |
| 1:14.5 | Seeing as we're talking about politics, |
| 1:16.0 | there was always a fantastic story about the former Scottish Conservative |
| 1:18.2 | James Douglas Hamilton, |
| 1:19.7 | who apparently had, |
| 1:21.6 | he was an old attorney |
| 1:23.4 | and a very polite gentleman, |
| 1:24.7 | apparently had vicious arguments |
| 1:25.9 | with his first government driver |
| 1:27.4 | who was a lady about who was supposed to hold the door open for him. And he was, and a very polite gentleman, apparently had vicious arguments with his first government driver, |
| 1:30.8 | who was a lady about who was supposed to hold the door open for him. |
| 1:32.7 | And he was very, very unhappy about it. |
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