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🗓️ 29 May 2025
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Sir Keir Starmer has hit back at Nigel Farage - making a speech warning that Farage's "fantasy" economics will lead to a Liz Truss-style economic meltdown. So would Reform UK's policies crash the economy?
Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with Manveen Rana and Zoe Strimpel.
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0:00.0 | Hello, this is Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day, |
0:09.0 | from striking doctors to white men's worries while sparing a thought for Justin Trudeau's trainers. |
0:13.7 | And joining me to tackle all that is Manvin Rana. Hello, Manveen. |
0:16.7 | Hello. How are you? |
0:17.8 | All right. Good to have you here. You say all right like you're not really all right. |
0:20.9 | I mean, the world's going mad, but that's kind of standard now. |
0:24.4 | You can say that every week. |
0:25.6 | And Zoe Strimple. |
0:26.6 | Hello, Zoe. |
0:27.2 | Hi, Hugo. |
0:27.7 | Lovely to have you in. |
0:28.3 | How are you? |
0:28.9 | Pretty tired. |
0:30.0 | Right. |
0:30.5 | What's the tea? |
0:31.5 | What's been happening? |
0:32.9 | Baby is ill. Right, they do that. They don't like to sleep when they're ill. Sometimes they love it, |
0:37.7 | sometimes they hate it. She's in the hate it. Right. So we're, we're soldiering through, |
0:41.6 | Hugo, but you know, being on with you as an antidote to all miseries. Yes, atonic. That's it. |
0:48.2 | Yeah. As I often say to people who just had kids, the first 12 years are the worst. Oh, okay. Only 11 to go. Best of luck. |
0:54.3 | I'm very optimistic about the teens. |
0:56.0 | Well, I mean, my youngest is only 13, so, you know, so far, so far the first 12 years are the worst. |
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