How to protect abortion rights from the far-right

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

England and Wales is still - unbelievably - operating under an 1861 law that criminalises abortion access. An unprecedented rise in prosecutions and the rise of an aggressive US-style anti-abortion movement in the UK have triggered calls for change. Labour MP Stella Creasy joins Nish and Coco to break down her bill to decriminalise abortion and make it a protected human right. Over in Scotland - Reform and Labour are battling against the SNP in a crucial by-election in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse on the outskirts of Glasgow. Former First Minister Humza Yousaf MSP shares his thoughts on this two-horse race, the Government’s complicity in genocide in Gaza, and what his next career moves might be. And finally - is Dominic Cummings, former special advisor to Boris Johnson - yes, the one who broke lockdown rules driving to Barnard Castle to “test his eyesight” - worth paying attention to… Stay tuned after the credits for a trailer for a special crossover with The News Meeting from the Observer, featuring our very own Coco Khan. CHECK OUT THIS DEAL FROM OUR SPONSOR SHOPIFY: https://www.shopify.co.uk/podsavetheuk Useful Links: See us live! https://crossedwires.live/podcast/pod-save-the-uk Sign Stella Creasy's petition! https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/decriminalise-abortion-and-make-it-a-protected-human-right Write to your MP https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/ Guests: Stella Creasy MP Humza Yousaf MSP Audio Credits STV Piers Morgan Uncensored Sky Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: [email protected] BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheuk Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.8	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:07.4	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:10.8	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:17.2	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.1	Now that's term time working.
0:24.5	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.8	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.0	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.8	Conditions apply.
0:33.5	Hi, this is Pod Save the UK.
0:34.2	I'm Nish Kumar.
0:35.6	And I'm Coco Khan.
0:42.4	And Nish, I've got a story you might like, MP falsely accused of calling Nigel Farage a C word.
0:48.7	I mean, I can't imagine that's a false accusation, but go on. Yeah, it's a weird story. So it goes that,
0:56.0	a local reform party account on X shared an AI edited clip of Liberal Democrat MP, Max Wilkinson, calling Nigel Farage a C-Unit, which was viewed nearly 100,000 times before being deleted,
1:04.0	and Wilkinson received a torrent of abuse for it.
1:07.0	First of all, I love the elegance of C-Un-Nit because it does contain the word. Also, if people
1:12.6	are looking for footage of someone calling Nigel Farage to C-U-U-Nit, by all means, just buy a ticket to
1:17.7	watch me do stand-up. You don't need to go around AIing these things. I can just imagine this
1:21.8	sort of hypothetical scenario being like, who amongst us would call Nigel Farage Sr.
1:26.8	And just niche stands up, I will do it.
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