The Week: Tariffs, Welfare Reform and Sue Gray speaks…
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Adam, Chris, Alex and Faisal discuss the impact of President Trump’s new 25% tariff on cars, whether Labour’s proposed welfare changes are more about balancing the budget than reforms, and Baroness Sue Gray has issued a warning in her maiden speech in the House of Lords about the language used around cuts to the civil service.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, everyone. I'm going to start with a little linguistic puzzle. |
| 0:08.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:09.4 | Is it wriggle room, or is it Wiggle Room? |
| 0:15.6 | Riggle. Riggle. I'm a wriggler. |
| 0:17.4 | Riggle. Are you? |
| 0:19.8 | I mean linguistically, not physically while you're waiting to go on TV. |
| 0:23.4 | I think it's wiggle, but I say wriggle, because I think language has evolved here. |
| 0:28.3 | But I think you can wriggle in the wiggle room. |
| 0:31.7 | So it's a wiggle room for a wriggling? |
| 0:33.9 | Yes. |
| 0:34.9 | So from my research on the internet, so not necessarily trustworthy. |
| 0:39.3 | I haven't confirmed with the House of Commons library. |
| 0:42.3 | Both are acceptable, but wiggle room is the more commonly used one. |
| 0:48.3 | Is it? |
| 0:49.3 | So what's the difference in the dictionary definition between a wiggle or wriggling. |
| 0:52.3 | I don't think there is a difference. |
| 0:53.3 | So wriggling would be the action. |
| 0:55.5 | Of a wiggling, squirming. |
| 0:56.7 | Squirming? |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah. |
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