Labour’s risky asylum pitch – podcast
Politics Weekly UK
The Guardian
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | I really reject this idea that dealing with this problem is somehow engaging in far-right talking points. |
| 0:17.0 | Because I can see illegal migration is tearing our country apart. I don't think these proposals are anything like radical enough. We support growth, |
| 0:26.6 | but Rachel Reeves hasn't a rashers how to deliver growth. Is the House Secretary a traitor |
| 0:31.2 | or a faithful, Prime Minister? One thing I would say for Morgan McSweeney is there wouldn't be a |
| 0:35.4 | Labour government without him. You've got the Parliamentary Labour Party being described as feral. That is disrespectful. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Pippa Carrera. And I'm Kieran, Stacey. You're listening to Politics Weekly UK. |
| 0:46.8 | For The Guardian. |
| 0:50.2 | Hello, we're back in the boom cupboard at Westminsterster after an incredibly busy week. The government will hoping it's a bit quieter this one, Karen, won't they? Yeah, I think a lot of people need to take a breath, calm down a little bit, and maybe we just need to stagger over the line to the budget. I wonder whether that will really happen. I am off later this week, Pippa, with the Prime Minister to Johannesburg for the G20. So I'm not sure |
| 1:12.3 | maybe Kier Stama's going to his happy place, a bit of foreign travel to cheer him up at the end of this |
| 1:16.4 | week. But also you'll be spending presumably quite a lot of time with him over on the plane, |
| 1:20.8 | in huddles out there, to be able to really find out for the first time since last week |
| 1:27.0 | how he's feeling about budget |
| 1:29.0 | U-turns, leadership pressures, all of that. |
| 1:31.4 | Those moments can be quite perilous actually for prime ministers because things can be happening |
| 1:34.9 | back in the UK which we as a kind of pack of journalists will then press the prime minister |
| 1:40.1 | on while the prime minister is abroad, maybe not surrounded by his usual coterie of advisors. |
| 1:46.3 | Sometimes prime ministers in those situations can say things they didn't mean to. |
| 1:50.2 | So keep your eyes out for interesting newslines, I think, coming over the weekend from that. |
| 1:54.6 | Well, we'll look forward to all of that. |
| 1:56.7 | But we should start on this week first, really, shouldn't we? |
| 1:59.2 | It's unfair to say that this is part of a bid to move on, |
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