Suella's asylum plan - why dozens of Tory MPs aren't backing it.
The News Agents
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🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Last night more than forty Conservative MPs refused to back Suella's new plan for immigration.
One- the former Lord Chancellor - called it 'ineffective authoritarianism'.
Another - the former Immigration Minister - called it 'an absolute horror'.
So today we tackle the policy head on. Is it legal? Is it humane? And will it lead fewer people taking small boats?
We also look at police violence against women. The numbers are unbelievable - how, out of 1500 officers facing accusations of violence, have only 13 been dismissed.
Is the force 'institutionally sexist'?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm going to say this name only once after using it multiple times over the past few days. |
| 0:12.2 | Because the firework display caused by one tweet from Gary Lineker was over a very specific issue. |
| 0:21.1 | And that was the bill to stop the small boats coming to Parliament, which he described as cruel. |
| 0:30.1 | And last night, it arrived in Parliament, this piece of legislation, and it's going to be |
| 0:36.0 | pushed through at breakneck speed. But very quickly, |
| 0:39.8 | protesters had gathered outside. Stop the bill! Stop the bill! Stop the bill! Stop the bill! Stop the bill! |
| 0:48.8 | So today, we're going to take you inside what that bill really tells us. |
| 0:57.9 | Big questions about whether or not it's actually legal. |
| 1:04.8 | Big questions about what you would do with minors, with children, with pregnant women who arrived here and whether they would be incarcerated under the 28-day plan. |
| 1:08.8 | Big questions about the Rwanda process, |
| 1:12.2 | which Tuella Bravman keeps holding up as the solution, |
| 1:15.5 | which we know has not yet worked and has been subject to legal appeal. |
| 1:21.0 | So today, we're going to take you inside that bill |
| 1:23.8 | and tell you what's actually going on. |
| 1:26.4 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:30.9 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And it's Lewis. And last night, one of us was doing a charity |
| 1:40.1 | event, mateless. One of us was having dinner with his daughter, Soaple, and one of us was |
| 1:48.0 | watching the unedited highlights of the debate in the House of Commons. One, Lewis Goodall, |
| 1:55.5 | in a surprise development. No one had seen that coming. It wasn't the highlights. It was live. |
| 1:59.2 | Three hours 14, John. Yeah, exactly. |
| 2:01.0 | This is my match of the day. |
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