Starmer vs Musk: the incredible first battle of the Labour Government
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
As planned violence continues this week the Prime Minister has a new battle on his hands - and it's one of the most influential men on the planet. Elon Musk is trolling Kier Starmer. So, how do governments take on Big Tech?
Later, Jon speaks to Scotland's former First Minister Humza Yousaf who questions whether the UK is the right place to raise his family following the "horrendous violence".
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. I don't know whether the future for me and my wife and |
| 0:16.1 | my three children is going to be here in Scotland or the United Kingdom or indeed in Europe and the West. |
| 0:22.6 | If you recognise that voice, it's because it's the former First Minister of Scotland, |
| 0:27.6 | Humza Youssef, the former leader of the SMP. |
| 0:31.6 | Now openly debating with his family whether he can stay in Britain as a British Muslim, born and bred here, |
| 0:41.5 | who now thinks this country is not a safe place for him to bring up his family. |
| 0:47.7 | How many others are feeling the same after a week of rioting across Britain? |
| 0:56.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:04.8 | The Newsagents. It's John in the studio. And it's Lewis in Blackpool. I don't know whether you're up there on your holidays or working there. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt |
| 1:09.1 | and say you're working there. It's always worth a visit to Blackpool, as you know, John. I'm sure you've been to many a party |
| 1:14.0 | conference in Blackpool. Many, many, many. But look, let's start with another night of violence, |
| 1:19.8 | another night of intimidation, another night scarring the reputation of England and Northern Ireland, in particular. And another night where it's |
| 1:31.9 | hard to imagine what it must feel like to be part of a minority community where you sense that |
| 1:38.5 | purely because of the colour of your skin, you are being targeted by yobbs who want to do you harm. And I think we're |
| 1:48.2 | going to talk about the social media aspects of this as well in a bit. But we also need to talk |
| 1:53.4 | about just what it must feel like to be targeted in this way. Yeah. So in terms of where we are now, it was a more limited set of |
| 2:03.8 | disorder last night, but there was still different pockets of it around the country on Monday night. |
| 2:09.1 | So there was a riot or disorder in Plymouth, Darlington. Devin and Cornwall Police said a police |
| 2:15.3 | had been injured, over 400 now arrested, |
| 2:19.3 | 46 charges now, 18 overnight. And meanwhile, the Times is reporting that they've seen |
| 2:26.7 | instructions from far right groups to make Molotov cocktails, which is being shared around |
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