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Politics Unpacked

Is Political Language Too Loose?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

As the debate over legal and illegal migration continues, are politicians being too imprecise with the words they choose?


Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with Libby Purves and James Marriott.



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0:00.0

Hello, this is Hugo Rifkin here, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day,

0:10.4

including chat over migration from all our politicians and in which country you would find Alaska.

0:16.8

And joining me are two of the finest minds from the Times and the Sunday Times, and they are James Marriott.

0:20.6

Hello, James. Good morning. How are you? I'm all right. I'm still recovering from the chaos of last week. Which, remind me, what happened last week? Oh, we got into a very deep and confusing philosophical discussion. Oh, that's right. Of what want you to do with the sheep, acceptedly. I hope we're going to return to that. I think that disgophan has miles to go in it. I wish you hadn't reminded me of that, because now I've got to say hello to Libby Perliss,

0:21.7

and I almost don're going to return to that. I think that discussion has miles to go in it.

0:37.7

I wish you hadn't reminded me of that, because now I've got to say hello to Libby Perliss, and I almost don't want to know what she thinks about it. Libby, what did you think of all that? All I can say is keep it clean this week, gentlemen, please. It was clean. It was a very chaste discussion about sheep, I felt, at the time. Although it easily...

0:34.5

It was a sheep that was being chased.

0:37.5

How are you, Libby? chaste discussion about sheep, I felt, at the time. Although it easily...

0:54.4

It was a sheep that was being chased.

0:57.3

How are you, Libby? Are you well?

0:59.7

Yes, yes, fine.

1:00.9

Well, good.

1:01.8

Great to have both of you, as always.

1:03.7

Let's crack on. We've got lots to plow through.

1:06.5

Today, Kirstama passes the unwelcome milestone of 50,000 people crossing the channel illegally

1:12.5

on small boats since he took power.

1:15.8

Yesterday, the Reform UK MP Sarah Potchin accused illegal immigrants of thinking they have a right

1:21.6

to sexually assault women.

1:23.7

And today, Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice spoke to Times Radio Breakfast.

1:28.4

We are seeing an increase in the numbers of sexual assaults, leering and jeering, as I said earlier, coincidentally, around asylum seeker hotels.

1:38.1

And when I campaign up and down the country, and I hear this from concerned residents close to these hotels time and time again.

1:48.5

And so I think the evidence is there on the ground.

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