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Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Mahmood defends asylum reforms, UN backs Trump's Gaza plan, ticket touting banned

Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Sky News

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.0224 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood is defending asylum reforms some Labour MPs are calling "cruel and inhumane". Also, the UN has passed Trump's peace plan for Gaza.

And the government is set to ban ticket touts reselling tickets way above face value.

Sophy and Wilf talk about how that's happened following a Competition and Markets Authority report which said Ticketmaster "may have misled Oasis fans" with unclear pricing. Although not about reselling, it did lead to promises to make sales more transparent.

Everything you need to know, minus the doomscrolling, in just 10 minutes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:28.9

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0:31.4

Hello, you are listening to Cheat Sheet, the podcast that gets you up to speed with what you need to know in the day ahead without the doom scrolling. I'm Sophie Ridge. And I'm Wilfrid Frost. It's Tuesday the 18th of November.

0:42.7

Here's what's coming up. So some Labour MPs are calling the Home Secretary Shabama Mahmood's

0:47.7

new asylum reforms cruel and inhumane. Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza has been approved by the UN.

0:56.0

And reselling tickets to sports events or gigs above face value is about to be banned by the government.

1:05.4

So we talked a little bit about the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's new plans to reform the asylum system

1:11.7

yesterday. She announced them in Parliament and took questions in Parliament about it yesterday,

1:17.0

and it was pretty heated. Of course, the headline of these new reforms involves making it

1:22.7

a 20-year period, rather than a five-yearyear period for refugees to seek permanent status here,

1:29.7

making it harder to get that status in the first place, reforming how we interpret the

1:34.1

ECHR's rules on family, the right to a family life, i.e. bringing, making it harder to bring

1:39.2

more family members over here and also making it clear that people could be deported if they're

1:43.3

already here and fall

1:44.8

foul of their rules. It's led to a huge reaction, including from those on the right, but perhaps

1:51.6

most interesting is the reaction from the left, both her Labor MPs who don't like these plans,

1:57.8

saying they're too tough on immigration. We've got a soundclip of her

2:02.5

reaction to one of the more pointed questions from someone on the liberal side of the argument,

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