It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this? The Spanish sexism row.
The News Agents
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🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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A tumultuous week in Spain continues as Luis Rubiales, the Head of the Spanish FA, refuses to resign after kissing footballer Jenni Hermoso on the lips in the aftermath of Spain's World Cup win. His mother is on day 2 of a hunger strike, locking herself inside a church. You couldn't write it.
So Lewis and Jon discuss the wider repercussions of this sexism row with Spanish lawyer Miriam Gonzalez Durantez.
They also speak with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about his controversial ULEZ extension, and whether it threatens to create divisions within the Labour party between Khan and Keir Starmer.
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| 0:16.3 | Well, the celebrations for Spain's victory in the World Cup |
| 0:25.9 | proves short-lived. |
| 0:27.5 | That is the sound of protest this weekend. |
| 0:30.3 | The very people who were celebrating a week ago |
| 0:32.8 | are now protesting about the ludicrous head of Spanish football, |
| 0:40.1 | Luis Rubiales, who is refusing to resign, refusing to stand down, refusing to make any concession. After he kissed on the lips, |
| 0:47.9 | the Spanish footballer at the moment when the World Cup was handed over, it has been a |
| 0:53.1 | ridiculous standoff that is taking place. |
| 0:56.2 | And now there is a counter-protest going on in southern Spain, located outside a church where |
| 1:02.2 | Luis Rubeyales' mother has locked herself and is going on hunger strike in order to end the |
| 1:08.5 | quote's inhumane witch hunt about her son. This is an absurd story |
| 1:13.7 | in so many ways and it's a sad story because it's taken so much away from that victory |
| 1:18.3 | from the Spanish women's team. But it's more at this point now than just about football. It's about |
| 1:23.6 | sexism, sexism which goes beyond Spain and Spain itself, which is increasingly tearing itself apart. |
| 1:30.4 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:34.9 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:36.8 | It's John. It's Lewis. |
| 1:38.5 | And there is that old phrase of clutching defeat from the jaws of victory. |
| 1:42.6 | And boy, have the Spanish Football Association managed |
| 1:45.8 | to do that with the behaviour of Luis Rubiales and then the attempts to defend him in the face of a |
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