Should Labour push harder on immigration?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A listener asks: will Keir Starmer and the Labour government attempt to change the conversation around immigration, or continue with a more hawkish stance in an attempt to win over reform voters?
Hannah Barnes and George Eaton discuss in our latest listener questions episode.
They also answer questions on how the electorate might change by the next election and whether voting reform will have an impact in future.
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| 0:45.8 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes and this is our weekly listener questions episode You Ask Us. Joining me in the studio to answer your questions is Senior |
| 0:50.6 | Editor George Eton. Hello George. |
| 0:54.0 | Right. |
| 0:55.0 | Let's start with something I know you've been writing about this week, not least in your interview |
| 0:58.8 | with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, which is Labor's stance on immigration and we'll put the link to read the article in |
| 1:04.3 | the show notes. So this is a question from YouTube user Emily Finch and she asks |
| 1:10.1 | will Kia Starmer and the Labour government attempt to change the conversation around immigration or |
| 1:17.1 | continue with a more hawkish stance in an attempt to win over reform voters? |
| 1:22.0 | She says is it possible that the riots have proved to the |
| 1:25.7 | government how dangerous anti-immigration language can be and the need to discuss the |
| 1:30.1 | benefits of immigration in order to avoid the vitriolic anger seen in recent weeks? |
| 1:36.0 | Very good question. |
| 1:37.2 | Two things to find Kistama's approach on immigration. |
| 1:40.8 | First, he doesn't want this to become or remain a culture war with very |
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