The Week: Send Funding, Workers Rights And A Big Drop In Legal Migration

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today, are the changes to Send funding the big change from the budget that not enough people are talking about?

Adam, Chris, Alex and Faisal discuss some of the big consequences of the news this week which may have been initially missed. What do the changes to Send funding mean for children across the country? Are Labour giving themselves the room to cancel some of the tax rises later in the parliament? And, what does the big drop in legal migration mean?

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0:07.5	With American politics, everything seems to be changing by the second.
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0:19.9	Makes sense of what's happening in the US with new podcast episodes throughout the week.
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0:28.0	Hello, this weekend I'm getting my Christmas tree, which means everything is starting to feel
0:32.0	very Christmassy and everyone's getting their plans ready for the festive period, including
0:36.2	what we're going to do on newscast.
0:37.6	And I've got exciting news for you.
0:39.2	If you liked our episodes of old newscast,
0:41.5	where we looked at a fairly recent,
0:43.9	but not that recent news story,
0:45.3	but in a newscast style,
0:47.1	old newscast is coming back.
0:48.8	We're going to be doing two other recent events.
0:54.0	You'll just have to stay tuned to find out what they are over the Christmas
0:56.9	period. And now here is a classic episode of Newscast, which we recorded on Thursday night with me
1:01.6	and the Newscast family just working out what we've learned from some of the big news stories
1:06.0	of the last week. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. Got I have an apology, please. I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no solulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And it's Chris in the studio. And it's Alex in the studio. And it's Faisal in the studio. Just a few little behind-the-scenes things to deal with, first of all. So Faisal and Chris, I call you Stattler and Waldorf, like the grumpy muffets. They're both grumpy and old. Neither of which is a problem.
1:47.0	And you were on politics live when the accidental transmission of the budget in advance happened via the OBR.
1:55.0	What was it like when you were sat in the studio and basically the whole thing came out in advance?
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