The Edition: Migration nation
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🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Spectator editor Fraser Nelson writes in this week’s cover story about how Brexit has led to Britain having more, not less, immigration – Rishi Sunak’s government is masking dysfunction in the welfare system by bringing in people to fill vacant jobs. To make his case, Fraser joins us alongside our economics editor Kate Andrews. (01:04)
Also this week:
Novelist Elif Shafak writes about the Turkish elections in the diary for this week’s magazine. Ultranationalism and religious fundamentalism were the real winners in last Sunday’s poll. To tell us all about it. Elif joins us alongside Spectator contributor Owen Matthews. (23:18)
And finally:
Is reality television ruining sport? The Spectator’s online editor Tom Goodenough writes in this week’s magazine about how a new trend of TV shows following sports teams is taking the joy away for fans. To explain, Tom joins us alongside our deputy editor Freddy Gray. (34:24)
Hosted by Lara Prendergast and William Moore.
Produced by Max Jeffery.
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| 0:35.2 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. |
| 0:39.4 | Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
| 0:46.8 | And I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor. |
| 0:50.3 | On this week's episode, we'll be looking at why Brexit has meant more immigration than ever |
| 0:55.5 | before. We'll be learning why Turkey is at an existential crossroads, and we'll be asking whether |
| 1:01.8 | reality TV is ruining sport. First up, Frise and Alson, our editor writes in this week's cover |
| 1:08.4 | story about how Brexit has led to Britain having more rather than less immigration. |
| 1:14.2 | So is Rishi Tunax government masking its own dysfunction in the welfare system by bringing in people to fill vacant jobs? |
| 1:21.6 | Fraser joins us now alongside our economics editor Kate Andrews. |
| 1:25.7 | Fraser, some listeners might be surprised to hear your argument, but do you think that this |
| 1:30.4 | should be seen as a positive? |
| 1:32.2 | Well, certainly when we were having the Brexit debate, all signs agree that there |
| 1:36.5 | would be significantly less immigration. |
| 1:38.4 | The big drawback to EU membership was free movement, the country wasn't able to control |
| 1:42.5 | its borders, and so we'd ended up with |
| 1:44.9 | hundreds of thousands, I think during the campaign, almost a third of a million net migration |
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