"I'll handle a sea bass however I like" | Anoosh & Will's weekly round-up
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Martin Lewis ambushed Kemi Badenoch, Your Party think bureaucracy will stop nuclear war, and the Sea Bass handling committee have released exciting new guidance.
Anoosh Chakelian and Will Dunn round up the week's political news you might have missed.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and welcome to our regular weekly roundup here on daily politics from the New Statesman. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Anusha Kellyan and joining me as usual is Will Dunn. Hello, Will. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello. So we've got a roundup of the week again for our listeners. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, let's round it up. Let's round up the week's political news. Roll up, |
| 0:21.1 | roll up. Like a bird of informative and interesting cattle. The first one is rogue |
| 0:27.7 | Kemi Badenock moment of the week. So I've chosen when she decided to contradict Martin Lewis |
| 0:33.7 | on how to reform the student loan system. A bold move for a British politician when |
| 0:38.6 | Martin Lewis has regularly voted the most trusted man in Britain. |
| 0:41.6 | Everybody will benefit. |
| 0:42.6 | No, they won't. Yes, they will. I'm sorry. I think they can. |
| 0:45.4 | Okay, noise is off is Martin Lewis is coming to the studio. Here we go. |
| 0:49.5 | If you want to help the middle learning students, if you want to help the middle learning students, the most important thing is the repayment threshold should have been increased. |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah, I mean, is there anyone, I mean, I guess probably Attenborough. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.6 | It's like blundering into an Attenborough program and maybe sort of kicking one of the animals in front of them. |
| 1:07.2 | Kicking one of the baby penguins or something. Yeah. So this is basically her new policy as Conservative |
| 1:12.7 | Party leader, the same Conservative Party that decided to treble tuition fees and charge |
| 1:17.3 | above inflation interest rates on student loan repayments. |
| 1:20.7 | The people who set up the system she is complaining about. Indeed. She's decided she would |
| 1:25.0 | cut the interest rate on student loan repayments. But she was being grilled about this on Good Morning Britain by Ed Balls, you know, the most famous Labour Cabinet Wag that we have in this country at the moment, who decided to then do the honourable thing and ambush her with Martin Lewis, who just came on and spoke at her about why the proposal... In a totally unplanned moment. Yeah. Martin Lewis just happened to be walking past. |
| 1:45.3 | He's just always in the background of these studios. He just roams, doesn't he? Yeah. Well, actually, one thing I know about Martin Lewis is that he does, he's a devotee of getting 10,000 steps in a day. So, I mean, he probably is roaming a fair bit. Yeah, I think that's why he stands up and sits down so often. |
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