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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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Despite last week's U-turn, Keir Starmer still faces a backbench rebellion over welfare. Is it particularly difficult for a Labour Prime Minister to cut benefits?
Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with James Marriott and Timandra Harkness.
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0:00.0 | Well, hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day, |
0:08.9 | including the Labour Rebellion over welfare. |
0:11.2 | We'll also discuss whether AI will give us more free time and why tennis players get so cross. |
0:16.0 | And joining me to help, you cannot be serious. |
0:18.1 | It's the always furious James Marriott. |
0:19.8 | Hello, James. |
0:20.7 | Good morning. Wow, so crossy sounds. |
0:22.7 | And the calming presence of Tamanda |
0:24.4 | Harkness. Hello, Tamandra. Hello. Thank you for |
0:26.6 | being at this very calm. I can't imagine anyone talking |
0:28.5 | like that while playing tennis. It'd be weird. I can't |
0:30.8 | keep it up for more than a single word, to be honest. |
0:32.7 | Do either of you play tennis? No, it was one of the more traumatic PE lessons of my childhood, where I was even |
0:38.4 | more useless than all the other PE lessons. James, I can imagine you don't play tennis, but also |
0:42.9 | at the same time, own excellent tennis whites from the 1930s. No, that's not true. I only wear, as you |
0:48.7 | know, black t-shirts just like you, every single day. I'll tell you what, I'll start wearing the tennis whites, |
0:54.7 | and then maybe I can inspire you. |
0:56.8 | Bring a bit of Brideshead to the Times Radio studio. |
0:59.8 | Jane Mulcarens, there's a woman with tennis whites. |
1:02.2 | I've seen them. |
1:02.5 | Yes. |
1:02.9 | Yeah, very, very often. |
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