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🗓️ 1 August 2025
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August is supposed to be a quiet time for politics but the Prime Minister has an array of thorny issues to contend with - from Heathrow's expansion plan, to foreign criminals and the fact that no one wants to name their baby after him.
Harry Wallop unpacks the politics of the day with Alys Denby and Phil Tinline.
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| 0:00.0 | Has the side hustle gone all laid back? |
| 0:03.3 | Your plan's gone way off track. |
| 0:07.0 | Or are the orders flowing, but it's hard to keep going? |
| 0:10.9 | It's time to bring the fire back, instead of getting sidetracked. |
| 0:15.5 | It's time to crack a Costa. |
| 0:18.9 | Side hustle without the struggle. |
| 0:21.8 | Try a can or bottle of silky smooth Costa coffee latte today. |
| 0:26.5 | Crack a Costa. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Harry Wallop sitting in for Ed Vasey, and we are going to be unpacking the politics of the day. |
| 0:49.2 | From the government plans for Heathrow expansion to why no one wants to call their baby Keir. |
| 0:53.0 | And joining me in the studio, a city AM columnist Alice Denby. |
| 0:53.4 | Hello, Alex. |
| 0:54.6 | Hello, thank you for having me. And political historian Alice Denb. Hello, Alex. Hello, thank you for having me. |
| 1:00.3 | And political historian Phil Tinline. Well, I'm Phil. Hello. Right, let's get into this. So, |
| 1:05.0 | I was sort of talking earlier on about how there doesn't really ever seem to be a silly season anymore. |
| 1:09.2 | It's just lots of news. It's not a proper summer recess. So it's the first day of August, |
| 1:13.2 | and the government has this huge majority. |
| 1:18.4 | It's only one year on, a bit more from the general election, but ministers have got all sorts of things to tackle with over the coming weeks. And one of those is Heathrow expansion. |
| 1:24.6 | The airport has submitted its plans for a third runway to the government today, |
| 1:27.8 | and its boss Thomas Waldby claims that the M25 can be moved overnight without any disruption |
| 1:34.5 | to motorists in order to facilitate the project. Alice, this is wonderful. We get a third runway |
| 1:40.2 | and no disruption. Is this really going to happen? Yeah, well, I hope so. It would be great news if it does. |
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