Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shots, Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oskarvinson. I'm joined today by Isabel Harmon and James Heel. And she's back. Angela Rainer. She gave a speech to Labour members last night, which a lot of people are interpreting as a sort of soft launch for her leadership bid. James, am I right in interpreting it as such?

Soft launch for the soft left.

Yes, just a fortnight after we had that Morgan McSweeney leaving speech at Walkers of Whitehall.

The greater than not so good of the Labour Party,

crammed into the belly of the beast at that same pub just across the road from Downing Street

to hear Angel Rana Throw

Metaphorical Rocks at the man who, she formerly served as his deputy, Kirstama.

She gave a very not-so-coded speech talking about labour is now seen as the establishment

and that they really need to deliver the change on which they were elected the promise of in 2024.

I think the highlight of the speech, or low-light, depending on your politics, was a very sort of coded attack on Shabana Mahmood. She talked about the fact that the reform she's proposing of changing indefinitely to remain from five years to 10 years, 10 years before you can claim asylum and rights in this country. She said that was effectively a breach of promise, you know, going back on one's word, that was un-British. and she was very, very critical of that and that decision. And it comes, of course, at a time

when we've had 100 Labour MPs, all sign a letter organised by Tony Vaughan, the MP in Kent.

And basically, they're saying that they're very concerned that Shabanamamud's policies are going

to be an attack on the government stance on integration and

treatment of those who've come into this country. So I think that does show the extent of

concern about this. Now, the changes to indefinitely remain would not need legislation to be required,

but given the strength of feeding the House, normally statutory instruments are for fairly

controversial things. You would imagine some kind of vote, be that in the form of an opposition day debate or be that in some way of Labour back benches would have to be having for the House. That could potentially be a trigger point. Right now, this seems to be sort of bubbling up within the Labour Party, partly as a reaction to what happened at Gorton and Denton, partly to it the general sense of malaise within the Labour Party. And also, of course, we are coming in, and this is my BBC Weather Girl segment, small boat season. We've had a long period over the winter months, where she was working on this, and we're going into spring now. And, you know, thus far, it hasn't been a particularly big week for small boat arrivals, but given, of course, Iran pressure, and one of the top five nationalities of those coming to this country illegally are Iranians, and that's something going to increase probably, given the improving weather, it therefore looks that we're going to have more small boat arrivals. And after last year, do we really want, I think, for the Labour Party's sake, more of those kind of rivals and more pressure and more momentum for reform? I mean, the immigration issue, Isabel, does seem to be the only one where there seems to be

cross-party consensus. Is it wise for Angela Raina to stick a neck out on this one?

Yeah, that's interesting saying cross-party consensus. There is in the sense that it is now

accepted that voters expect the government to be taking small boats and legal migration

numbers very seriously.

Where the consensus falls apart is, I think, within the parties, particularly as James

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