Starmer's Migration Mission

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the latest net migration figures, as the UK hit a record 906,000 in the year to June 2023, much higher than previously thought. Sir Keir Starmer seized on the figures - which cover a period before Labour took office - to accuse the Tories of “running an open borders experiment”.

Adam is joined by Chris, Alex Forsyth and Nick Watt to discuss that and look ahead to the vote on assisted dying tomorrow. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Anna Harris. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.7	Are you three feeling in the Christmas spirit yet?
0:07.9	I reckon I am.
0:08.9	So I had lunch earlier and I thought, am I in the Christmas spirit?
0:12.6	And then I saw that sprouts were on the menu and I got them.
0:15.4	So I think that is tilting over the edge, even though I think it's a bit early for Christmas music.
0:20.2	Yeah, December's my... I've got the strict December only rule.
0:23.2	On sprouts or Christmas music?
0:24.6	Everything festive. I'm like Scrooge until December.
0:27.4	You think it's too early for Christmas music?
0:29.5	I do, yeah.
0:30.3	It's never too early.
0:31.5	You won't enjoy this, which is Ed Davy, leader of the Liberal Dramacats' Christmas single, which was released today in which he promoted on the podcast edition of Newscast.
0:37.8	Together we stand, walking hand in hand.
0:46.9	Not exactly defying gravity, but yeah, so he's done that.
0:50.1	It's been well received.
0:51.3	It has been very well received.
0:52.7	And it's for charity.
0:54.0	It's to raise money and awareness for young carers received. And it's for charity. It's to raise
0:54.5	money and awareness for young carers. But then it made me think what other politicians come to
1:00.0	mind when you think about singing. It depends if you think about those karaoke sessions at the
1:04.3	party conferences. I mean, people who are like officially legit singing, not like at the end of a
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