How Will Police Use Their New Powers To Restrict Repeated Protests?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today, the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces new police powers to restrict protests.

Plus Tory leader Kemi Badenoch talks about her plan to remove 750,000 illegal migrants over five years, saying those who come to the UK without permission should "go back to where they came from".

And how much closer is a resolution of the conflict in Gaza?

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenters were Laura Kuenssberg, Paddy O’Connell and Henry Zeffman. It was made by Jon Bithrey with Sophie Millward. The technical producer was Jonny Baker. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	If American politics is leaving you with a lot of questions, you're not alone.
0:12.3	On America's, we chat through what's really going on.
0:15.3	Make sense of what's happening in the US, with new podcast episodes arriving throughout the week.
0:20.6	America's, listen on BBC Sounds.
0:24.1	So Sunday's newscast dawns with Henry and Laura in me in different places.
0:29.5	Hello, I am in Salford at our little makeshift studio where we were here this morning
0:34.9	broadcasting as the Conservative Conference gets underway.
0:37.7	And I am at home in London, but soon to be on my way to Manchester for the Conservative Party
0:42.6	conference, like ships in the night with Laura, I guess.
0:45.6	Oh, I'm sad because last week at Liverpool, you'd already made it to Liverpool, the Labour
0:48.9	Conference. So we were together in our glorious Liverpool studio. So I feel a bit lonely here.
0:54.0	Do you have conference ticks?
0:56.7	You know, do things you have to do, ties you have to wear, routines you like to do?
1:02.9	Well, I've gone through many years across two employers of having an annual game of mini-golf against Matt Shirley,
1:10.0	which we already had in
1:11.7	Bournemouth at the Liberal Democrat Conference and which I won for the record. In fact, I won so handily, Paddy, as I'm sure you'd like to know, that I made it onto the top 10 leaderboard of the Bournemouth Smugglers Cove mini-golf course of all the people who played in the last week. And I'm not overpleased with that or anything.
1:28.3	I just happen to have mentioned that on newscast.
1:30.9	But what's the Dunhill tournament for you next, mate? What's the difference between mini-golf and crazy golf? Yeah, well, I don't know. Maybe it was crazy golf. It was a, you know, a little thing made out of plastic by the seaside.
2:06.2	But they're like dinosaurs and, you know, pirates or fentons. Well, it was pirate themed. There were lots of water hazards. That's crazy golf thing, I think. Okay, okay, crazy golfs. I think mini golfs when you play with a tiny club, I think. Now, look, is that pitch and a pub? We're putting that off now. So one day, long in the future, we'll get to grips with the very busy news cycle on this Sunday's edition of Newscast.
2:10.0	Newscast from the BBC.
2:12.8	Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons.
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