Mahmood’s Moral Mission: Copy Reform’s homework

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News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Warning: this episode contains strong language and a term of racist abuse. Just when we thought the disasters of the government couldn’t get any worse… New Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has made it her “moral mission” to raise Nish and Coco’s blood pressure. Cruel new plans to end the permanent status of refugees and curb housing and support for asylum seekers do perhaps justify the government’s slogan of the biggest overhaul of the system “in modern history” - but at what cost? But - not to be outdone in terms of parties completely out of touch with reality - Your Party’s latest act of in-fighting leaves Nish and Coco with palms glued to their faces. Let’s face it - things have never been anything but fractious within the upstart political movement, but as their conference approaches the wind has never seemed further from their sails. And ahead of the budget next week Chancellor Rachel Reeves is entertaining big cuts to the Warm Homes Plan in efforts to bring down energy bills. Nish and Coco chat to Robert Palmer, Deputy Director of environmental organisation Uplift, about why this quick fix is wrong-headed and short sighted. CHECK OUT THESE DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS AURA FRAMES https://www.auraframes.com Code: PSUK CALM https://www.calm.com/PSTUK GUESTS Robert Palmer, Deputy Director of Uplift USEFUL LINKS Claims of racism and antisemitism in Nigel Farage’s adolescence https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/deeply-shocking-nigel-farage-faces-fresh-claims-of-racism-and-antisemitism-at-school CREDITS Shabana Mahmood / X Reform UK Parliament TV Ed Miliband / IG Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: [email protected] BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheukYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.6	Hi, this is Potsave the UK. I'm Nish Kumar. And I'm Cocoa Khan. And this week, Home Secretary
0:27.5	Shabana Mahmood is flooding the front pages in a bid to prove the government is tough enough
0:32.3	on immigration. And Chancellor Rachel Reeves is mulling slashing the warm home's budget to help bring
0:37.3	down energy bills.
0:38.5	We speak to Robert Palmer, Deputy Director of Uplift about the social and environmental impact.
0:43.1	Then, independent MP Adnan Hussein has quit the your party organising committee,
0:47.8	citing persistent infighting.
0:50.2	We take a closer look at what's been going down.
1:15.8	So, Coco, I have a friend who always tells me that we should start on the positive. Okay. So let's give the government a fair shake here. They have come good on one of their election pledges. Yeah? We're one for one. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay, yes. No, I know which one you're talking about. You're talking about the reselling tickets to live events. Doing that will be banned as part of a crackdown on Tout and Resale Platform. So we are now all in with a better chance of seeing you on tour. Tickets are readily available for my shows.
1:20.9	I wouldn't worry too much about getting them on resale. But yeah, I think, you know, that is a
1:26.9	positive thing.
1:29.1	There is way too much price gouging.
1:33.1	I would like to see them go a bit further and look at some of the monopolies that might exist around certain companies that may own certain venues
1:37.3	and certain ticketing platforms.
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