Inflation and migration: Sunak’s problematic pledges
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Cutting inflation and stopping small-boat migration are two of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s five core priorities, but there's no let-up in inflation or unhappiness with the government's policy on asylum seekers. George Parker, the FT’s political editor, discusses with economics correspondent Delphine Strauss and economics editor Chris Giles how far off target the government is. Plus, the UK’s stretched public finances are braced for a hit of up to £10bn in compensation claims for those affected by a decades-long NHS contaminated blood scandal. How did it happen? George hears from global health editor Sarah Neville and Barry Flynn, one of the victims who has severe haemophilia A and was infected with hepatitis C.
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| 0:40.0 | but there's no let up in inflation and a lot of unhappiness |
| 0:43.0 | with a government's policy on asylum seekers. |
| 0:45.0 | It is isolationist. |
| 0:47.0 | It is morally unacceptable and politically impractical. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome to the political fix, |
| 0:55.0 | your essential insider guide to Westminster, |
| 0:58.0 | from the Financial Times, with me, George Parker. |
| 1:01.0 | You heard there the Archbishop of Canterbury just in Wellby, |
| 1:04.0 | speaking in the House of Lords. |
| 1:06.0 | While Westminster is focused on illegal boat arrivals, |
| 1:09.0 | what about legal migration? |
| 1:11.0 | That's soaring too, in spite of the conservative promise in 2019 |
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