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Politics Unpacked

The Biggest Threat to the West

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Sir Richard Dearlove began his career in the intelligence services at the height of the Cold War, and went on to become 'C' - the head of MI6. He tells Matt what he thinks will happen to Putin, Trump, and why China is the biggest threat to the West today.


Plus: Columnists Manveen Rana and Matthew Parris discuss Rishi Sunak backing away from his pledge on migration, whether Nigel Farage should be in the House of Lords, and which politicians sell the most Toby Jugs.




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0:52.8

the app. Very good. Right, coming up on today's episode I've been speaking to Sir Richard

0:56.9

Deerlove former head of MI6 about how you get a tap on the shoulder should become a spy.

1:02.8

What he thinks about Britain's relations with Russia and China and Donald Trump if he comes

1:07.8

back as a president who's really interesting chat coming up with him in just a moment.

1:11.1

First, as ever, we'll kick off with the columnists.

1:17.1

Manvine Runner and someone called Matthew on Times Radio.

1:24.1

Yes, it's Thursday, so we say hello to Manvine Runner.

1:28.0

Hello. And this week someone called Matthew is Matthew Powers. Tell him Matthew.

1:33.4

Hello. Good to have you. Good to have you both here. Let's talk about migration.

1:38.8

Rishi Sunak has flown all the way to Japan to get in a pickle back home. He has backed away

1:47.7

from the manifesto promise to cut immigration below 2019 levels and appeared to blame Boris Johnson

1:54.6

for the record number of migrants coming to the UK. So he was asked several times on the plane to

2:00.0

Japan and pressed on it. He said, I inherited some numbers I want to bring down as if it was

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