FIFA World Cup: Trade Deals 1, Human Rights Nil
Pod Save the UK
Pod Save the UK
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In the same week FIFA decided an appalling human rights record is no obstacle to Saudi Arabia hosting the 2034 World Cup, Keir Starmer was schmoozing the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. What lengths will our former human rights lawyer PM go to in his pursuit of growth? Joey Shea from Human Rights Watch takes us through what went down during the visit.
Back home, the government is talking up its plans to build 1.5 million new homes. Housing journalist Vicky Spratt joins Nish and Coco to assess whether Labour can pull off the biggest home building initiative since the second world war.
And Pod Save The UK has found the perfect job for the royal family: Trump whisperers. Prince William was hastily wheeled out in Paris to charm the President and Nish and Coco explore why Trump has a weird soft spot for the Windsors.
Guests:
Vicky Spratt
Joey Shea
Audio Credits:
Sky News
UK Government
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| 0:24.7 | Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nish Kumar. And I'm Cocoa Khan. This week, the government has laid out its plan for change. And the first item on the agenda is the most ambitious house building project since the Second World War. But do the government's plans add up? We're speaking to the I's housing correspondent, Vicky Spratt. And Kirstama has jetted off to Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the hopes of securing new trade deals. |
| 0:28.0 | But does its mission for economic growth risk abandoning human rights? |
| 0:30.5 | We'll find out with Joey Shea from Human Rights Watch. |
| 0:38.2 | Sometimes when we ask our questions in the intro, I'm always really reminded of that old adage about like every question you put in a headline, the answer is yes. |
| 0:42.3 | Or the answer is no. The answers are yes or yes. The answers are only yes or no. |
| 0:49.8 | Are you suggesting we do an episode one week where we do that and then it just plays the theme music and then we just go, okay, so quickly yes and no. |
| 0:55.7 | So like, do the government's plans add up? No. Does it risk abandoning human rights? |
| 0:56.1 | Yes. |
| 0:57.1 | There you go. |
| 0:58.6 | That's at the end of the episode, everybody. |
| 0:59.8 | Thanks for tuning into Pod Save. |
| 1:02.9 | Pod Save the UK is a reduced listing production for Crooked Media. |
| 1:09.0 | Okay, so having answered the questions yes or no, do you want to just crack into the... Should we just... |
| 1:10.0 | We're here anyway. |
| 1:11.1 | We're here. We May I might as well just do the show. |
| 1:13.1 | So incoming US President Donald Trump has marked his return to the international stage |
| 1:17.9 | with a visit to Paris where he attended the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral. |
| 1:22.9 | And he made a beeline to butter up with Prince William. |
| 1:26.4 | So for the benefit of the listeners to the podcast, |
| 1:28.6 | I'm looking at a picture of William and Trump here, |
| 1:31.1 | and it's definitely awkward. |
| 1:33.1 | It looks like an episode of Celebrity Gogglebox |
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