Is migration helping or hurting the UK?
Electoral Dysfunction
Sky News
4.4 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, Beth, Ruth and Harriet have a deep dive into one of the most divisive and defining political issues of our time: migration.
In the week France's President Emmanuel Macron has been hobnobbing with the great and the good on his state visit to the UK, he's also agreed a new 'one in, one out' returns deal with the prime minister. So is this a breakthrough deal?
Also - how could stemming migration cause problems for the UK? Are the numbers really out of control? And how does this all link back to the economy?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Electral Discussion. I'm dysfunctioning. It's too hot. I've melted. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to Electoral Disfunction from Sky News with me, Beth Rigby. |
| 0:18.7 | Me Ruth Davidson and me Harriet Harmon. |
| 0:21.1 | Hello everyone. Ruth, you're still there. You've survived the week of intense mummy in. |
| 0:26.0 | I know. Like, I'm genuinely quite proud of myself that I haven't had to phone Jen, |
| 0:30.8 | who's been away for four days and four nights in a blithering panic going, ah, something's |
| 0:35.8 | happened. You must tell me how to parents and stuff. |
| 0:39.0 | But yes, apparently it's not babysitting when it's your own child, but I've survived. |
| 0:42.1 | It's been great. |
| 0:42.8 | And me and Finn have had loads of fun, actually. |
| 0:44.5 | You're back. |
| 0:45.3 | I wasn't sure you'd make the pod due to intense mummy in commitments, but here you are. |
| 0:53.7 | It's been a big week with the first state visit from a French president since 2008. |
| 0:59.3 | And also, this has been the fast state visit of any European leader since Brexit. |
| 1:04.4 | So unbelievable that, isn't it? |
| 1:05.8 | Such a big reset moment. |
| 1:08.0 | But I have a question for both of you. |
| 1:10.5 | Why is everyone so obsessed with Brigitte |
| 1:13.3 | Macron? The papers cannot get enough of her. I can't get enough of her. Harriet, can you not get |
| 1:18.9 | enough of her? Well, I am, you know, borderline obsessed with Brigitte Macron, but I feel I |
| 1:24.1 | shouldn't be. It's like a sort of embarrassing thing. But I am very intrigued and always looking closely at her clothes |
| 1:31.6 | and all the interaction. |
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