Thousands join anti-racism protests, is this a turning point?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
After over a week of violence and unrest, it was feared last night that the riots would gather even more momentum, targeting immigration offices and centres across the country. Instead, we saw an outpouring of solidarity and counter-protests took place.
Hannah Barnes, associate editor, is joined by Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor, and Nick Harris, Staggers' editor.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm joined today in the studio by the New Statesman podcast. I'm joined today in the studio by the |
| 0:43.6 | New Statesman's associate political editor Rachel Kunleff and making his |
| 0:48.8 | podcast debut the New Statesman's staggers editor Nick Harris. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome both. |
| 0:55.0 | A difficult week. |
| 0:58.0 | Finally, last night we may have turned a corner, |
| 1:01.0 | so after this week of violence and unrest that we've seen in |
| 1:04.4 | the country it was feared that last night that those riots would spread a hundred |
| 1:10.1 | warnings of protests but they seemingly didn't materialize and instead we saw an |
| 1:17.5 | outpouring of solidarity and counter-protest taking place. |
| 1:22.6 | Nick, you were at one of them, |
| 1:24.6 | you went to Walthamstowe. |
| 1:26.5 | Tell us what it was like. |
| 1:27.9 | Well, so yeah, so the suggestion had been |
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