Terror Threat Rises
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
With the terror threat level raised to “severe,” the Metropolitan Police is reviewing whether pro-Palestine marches can go ahead. Where should the line be drawn between public safety and the right to protest?
Ed Vaizey unpacks the politics of the day with Alys Denby and Michael Binyon.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ed Vasey and I'm going to be unpacking the politics of the day. |
| 0:09.4 | All eyes are on the Met Police. |
| 0:11.4 | Also why we might owe a cheer to King Charles and would you admit to a theft almost half a century later? |
| 0:20.0 | With me today, two people who have definitely stoned our hearts, it says here. |
| 0:25.8 | Who writes this? |
| 0:27.3 | I thought you wrote it. |
| 0:28.9 | The Times leader writer Michael Binion. |
| 0:31.6 | Thank you, yes. |
| 0:32.9 | And the plaintiff cry you just heard is from the City AM's opinion and features editor Alice Denby. |
| 0:38.7 | Hello. |
| 0:40.2 | Welcome to the show, both of you. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:43.1 | We're now going to be unpacking the politics of the day. |
| 0:46.4 | We're going to start with you, Alice. |
| 0:48.9 | You have a confession to make. |
| 0:51.3 | You recently posted on X. |
| 0:53.3 | I'm sure you're about to do something against which all my |
| 0:57.2 | instincts recoil something so shameful I can't believe oh no this is you this is what you |
| 1:04.1 | posted sorry I thought it was me I'm about to do something against which all my instincts |
| 1:08.1 | recoil something so shameful I can't believe I'm admitting in a newspaper what is it alice i am going to vote labor at the upcoming local elections i hate |
| 1:17.5 | myself for it but unfortunately where i live in south london people don't know what's good for them so |
| 1:22.1 | they tend not to vote conservative and so it's a marginal between Labor and the Greens. And considering who is the |
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