Is Labour finally being Labour?

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Rachel Reeves has delivered her very first spending review, promising to ‘renew Britain’ with big cash boosts for the NHS, housing and defence. It’s a marked change of tone but the Tories are calling her approach “spend now, tax later”. Nish and Coco dig into the details and are left with some questions. Are tax rises in the Autumn inevitable? Are high-stakes promises, like vowing to end spending on controversial asylum hotels, ill-thought-out? Will all this be enough to change the public mood? And as we’ve seen across the pond in LA this week, face masks have been critical to protect the identity of protestors demonstrating against immigration raids and deportations. But the UK government plans to ban them. Nish and Coco speak to Akiko Hart, director of human rights organisation, Liberty, about how we can uphold the right to protest and the latest on challenging the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. And finally - it gives us great joy to announce - Reform UK is in meltdown with (now former) party chairman Zia Yusuf performing the political equivalent of the hokey-cokey… is he in or out? CHECK OUT THIS DEAL FROM OUR SPONSOR SHOPIFY: https://www.shopify.co.uk/podsavetheuk Useful Links: See us live! https://crossedwires.live/podcast/pod-save-the-uk Liberty Human Rights https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/ Guests: Akiko Hart Audio Credits BBC Parliament TV Instagram / Richard Tice Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: [email protected] BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheuk Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.5	Hi, this is Podsave the UK. I'm Cocoa Khan. And I'm Nish Kumar.
0:37.0	Coco, I hear you've been ruffling the feathers
0:39.1	of some of our favourite Tories. Here is a clip of you talking to Jeremy Hunt on BBC's Laura
0:45.2	Kunsberg on Sunday. I think I'll probably disagree with Coco. I expect you good, Jeremy.
0:50.0	Respectfully. Respectfully disagreeing. Well, well, well. Did you have fun? I wish that I could tell you
0:58.0	some story about how like in the green room I really told him how it was. But in the green room,
1:02.5	they had free pastries and I am a, you know, a new mum. So I just sat in the corner just eating
1:09.0	pastries, looking at the various powerful men coming in and out thinking, God, you're all so tall. Is that a prerequisite for government? You have to all be six foot and wear a navy suit.
1:18.0	Well, let's just take a second to observe the true narrative arc of Cocoa Khan's life to find yourself in a situation where on a Sunday morning, you woke up, presumably had some interactions with your newborn child
1:31.3	and then went to do a political discussion show on a Sunday morning,
1:34.3	whereas previous iterations of Cocoa Khan would either have simply not been awake
1:39.3	or would not have been to bed from the night before.
1:42.0	So let's just observe the grand narrative arc.
1:46.0	Before those conversations with Jeremy Hunt were in my head.
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