Tories war on 'lefty lawyers', and Sunak's Disney dinner

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News, News Commentary, Government

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Returning from their summer holidays, Nish and Coco reflect on the failure of the Government’s ‘small boats week’. It was supposed to showcase progress but, instead it ended in the tragic deaths of a number of people trying to cross the Channel. An interesting time then for Tory HQ to step up their war on so-called ‘lefty lawyers’. We hear from immigration lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie, who was the target of a Conservative smear campaign. She tells Nish and Coco how right wing newspapers were given a four page dossier on her, riddled with inaccuracies and misrepresentations, trying to tie her to the Labour Party. She says it’s an experience that will scar her for life.

Economics expert Grace Blakeley joins Coco and Nish to reflect on the week’s big news on inflation and jobs…picking apart why the positive headlines might be a bit misleading. Nish, Coco and Grace also fess up to the most expensive meals they’ve ever had, in light of Rishi Sunak’s $1200-a-head Disneyland dining experience. Among the questions discussed: Does it matter that our PM is so rich? Who controls the economy? And…should we have billionaires at all?

Plus hero and villain of the week, tales from Vietnam and Edinburgh, and why it’s easier to teach a dog to surf than Nish. Also find out why Nish and Coco have the cleanest bottoms in podcastland!

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Guests:

Jacqueline McKenzie, partner and head of immigration and asylum law at Leigh Day

Grace Blakeley, journalist, author and economics commentator

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to PodSafe the UK. I'm Coco Khan.
0:15.2	And I'm Nishkumar. Nishkumar from afar.
0:18.4	Yes, I am at home due to having contracted the no longer novel coronavirus. It has gone
0:25.2	for 2020. I am baking banana bread and watching the Tiger King.
0:30.2	But where were you before this happened because we've been on recess, right? So where have
0:34.4	you been?
0:35.4	Coco, I've had an eventful couple of weeks. The last time we were recording in a studio
0:40.4	together, I mentioned that I'd injured myself playing football. It turns out I'd broken
0:45.4	my hand. I'd broken my finger. I went to A&E on the Isle of White and the nurse attempted
0:53.0	to reset my finger and I refused pain medication because I thought, it can't be that bad. I didn't
1:00.1	even notice it was broken. I then fainted like a Victorian woman who needed vapors to be
1:06.9	brought back around because she'd spied a gentleman's ankle. So then I now, so I was
1:14.8	going to have to have an operation on my hand.
1:16.9	Oh, wow. An operation.
1:18.9	Yeah. And then in the middle of that, I went to the end of a fringe. I don't know how well
1:22.5	listeners will be, how familiar listeners will be with the Edinburgh fringe venues, but
1:28.1	they are all disease bunkers. And so I guess if I was going to, if I was going to get COVID
1:33.8	anywhere at the moment, it was likely to be the Edinburgh fringe. So mixed bag for me,
1:41.6	I do think it's worth noting that the particular hand that it is means that I got injured by
1:47.1	turning too enthusiastically to the left. So in many ways, it remains consistent with my
1:54.7	own personal brand.
1:56.0	I'm glad you also have that thing where just the direction left makes you think of politics.
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