Suella’s own goal
The News Agents
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Could Suella's new Illegal Immigration Act be about to backfire horribly on the Home Office?
Over the last year, money to house asylum seekers has come from the Department for International Aid. It's taken nearly 30 percent of their budget or just over £3.7billion.
But the introduction of the new law - which criminalises asylum seekers - means that the government is no longer allowed under OECD rules to spend Aid money on them.
Instead - the money looks like it may have to come from the Home office itself.
Yup - all the money this government would prefer to be spending on policing, anti-terror, fire services etc. Was this a big fat own goal? Or is the government prepared to break international rules to avoid the change?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | When you think of the great heroes, the great figures of humanitarian aid, development around the world, you probably think of people like, you know, Bill Gates or... |
| 0:24.6 | Bob Geldof. |
| 0:25.6 | Bob Geldof, even... |
| 0:26.6 | Mother Teresa. |
| 0:27.6 | Mother Teresa. |
| 0:28.6 | You probably don't think about this woman. |
| 0:31.6 | Two months ago, the Prime Minister made a promise to the British people. He said that anyone entering this country |
| 0:40.9 | illegally will be detained and swiftly removed. No half measures. The illegal migration bill will fulfil |
| 0:53.6 | that promise. |
| 0:56.8 | It will allow us to stop the boats that are bringing tens of thousands to our shores in flagrant breach of both our... |
| 1:05.1 | Yep, it's Suella. It's Arcewella, the accidental hero, nay heroine, of international development. |
| 1:13.5 | Because of an unintended consequence, an own goal in the way her illegal migration bill has passed. |
| 1:22.6 | And we're going to explain just what's happened on today's episode. |
| 1:27.1 | Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. |
| 1:34.1 | It's Lewis. It's Emily. And we are going to be talking to you today about a story which hasn't |
| 1:39.8 | got that much attention, but we think it's actually going to be really, really, well, it's going |
| 1:44.8 | to really matter in terms of public spending, but potentially in politics as well. This all goes |
| 1:49.6 | back to, and we've covered it on this show many times now, this all goes back, as we were saying, |
| 1:53.9 | to the Illegal Migration Act, then Bill, which was really ran through Parliament over the |
| 2:00.0 | course of the last year or so less. |
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