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🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Conservative MPs Alicia Kearns and Tom Tugendhat have urged Keir Starmer to designate China a top-tier threat, calling his inaction a sign of weakness - but would such a label really change anything?
Hugo Rifkind is joined by Seb Payne and Charlotte Ivers to unpack the politics of the day.
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| 1:34.3 | Hello, hello, I'm Heila Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day, and there is an awful lot of it. |
| 1:36.1 | From the China spy case that's not going away to a warning that Kirstarmer is deserting, |
| 1:39.7 | left-wing voters. |
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