Is the 'Suellafication' of the Tory party over?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
What should the government do if the Supreme Court calls their policy unlawful? Simples. Just change the law.
It’s not the Christmas cracker joke answer for some in the Conservative Party who are actively trying to get the PM to do just that. Today, a former Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland, spells out the damage that would do.
Later, we ask what the decapitation of Sam Altman at the top of OpenAI tells us. Was he going too fast towards an unregulated AI world? And is it too late to put the genie back in the bottle, if so?
And... MAGA. Argentine style.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Do you expect planes to go? |
| 0:14.1 | We will act as quickly as we possibly can. |
| 0:17.6 | If it was up to me, I'd be sending planes now, but we have to address. |
| 0:21.8 | No, but as I say, we have to address the concerns of the Supreme Court, and that's what we're |
| 0:25.8 | doing with this treaty. Because your Deputy Chairman, as you know, said, let's break the law. |
| 0:29.3 | Well, I'm not saying that, and the Prime Minister is not saying that. |
| 0:33.2 | He doesn't speak for you when he says that. I am not saying that. What I'm saying is that we are going |
| 0:38.2 | to address the concerns of the Supreme Court, and I believe that we can do that through this new |
| 0:41.7 | treaty. That's Gareth Davis, Treasury Minister, speaking to Kay Burley on Sky News this morning. |
| 0:48.2 | It wasn't quite saying, Alasuella, it was his dream to see planes taking off for Rwanda. But it's absolutely clear. |
| 0:57.5 | That is what the government wants, even though getting it done is looking increasingly fraught. |
| 1:02.8 | And difficult for Rishi Sunak, who is being buffeted on all sides by his parliamentary party, even by his cabinet. |
| 1:11.5 | Do they go for a treaty? |
| 1:13.4 | Do they go for it anyway? |
| 1:15.4 | Are they willing to break or to change or to duck out of international law, even common law, to get the Rwanda plan done? |
| 1:24.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:29.4 | The Newsagents. The newsagents. |
| 1:31.4 | It's John. It's Emily. And previously, as they say, on the newsagents, we brought you the Rwanda |
| 1:37.3 | plan slapped down by the Supreme Court. That was last Wednesday. A big blow to Rishi |
| 1:42.8 | Sunak and his government and his plans for how |
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