How is Westminster responding to the crisis in Ukraine?
The Rundown by PoliticsHome
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🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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On this week's episode of The Rundown from PoliticsHome, Alain Tolhurst is joined by PoliticsHome's Political Editor Kate Proctor and Political Reporter Eleanor Langford to discuss how Westminster is responding to the myriad issues raised by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Then, Alain is joined by former Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green to look at whether the UK could, and should, be doing more for Ukrainian refugees. Finally, there's a look ahead to next week's fast-tracked consideration of the Economic Crime Bill, and the new powers that could facilitate the deployment of sanctions against Britain's Russian oligarchs.
The Rundown is presented by Alain Tolhurst, with Kate Proctor and Eleanor Langford. The editor is Laura Silver.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a new podcast from Politics Home. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Alan Tolhurst and each week I'll be taking an in-depth look at the biggest political |
| 0:12.8 | stories of the week with fellow politics home reporters and special guests from across Westminster. |
| 0:17.6 | Coming up, we'll be talking to former Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green, who this |
| 0:21.0 | week was one of a group of senior Tories to pile pressure on the government over the UK's policy |
| 0:24.5 | for helping those fleeing Ukraine. But first, joining me to discuss the crisis in Ukraine after |
| 0:29.0 | Russia's invasion and other big issues in Westminster this week is our political editor, Kate Proctor, |
| 0:33.1 | and political reporter Anna Langford. |
| 0:36.0 | Start with you, Ellie. Talk us through the latest developments as we record this on Thursday afternoon. |
| 0:40.2 | So Liz Truss has been in Lithuania. She's just been speaking right before we went on. |
| 0:44.6 | And we're saying, foot on the gas to deal with the situation with Russia, saying Putin must fail. |
| 0:50.5 | And she announced that next week, USA, Canada, Ukraine are all going to be going to the EU for a big meeting to try and sort this situation out. |
| 0:58.8 | And I believe Ben Wallace is also in Estonia today as well. |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah, it's quite a big move. |
| 1:04.1 | Obviously, we've left the EU, but now LIS Trust is going to be joining the CU Council. |
| 1:07.9 | Kate, what did you make of it? |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, I think it's true that we're now |
| 1:11.4 | trying to form these partnerships again with our European neighbours, and that seems to be working |
| 1:16.6 | pretty well at the moment. I think Britain, when it comes to military matters and defence, |
| 1:21.2 | maintains a level of respect from other EU nations, so it's not too difficult for us to |
| 1:24.9 | slot right back in and be part of that group. But I think |
| 1:28.7 | something that struck me today was, you know, the UK is so firm on there not being a no-fly zone. |
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