Was this Kemi Badenoch's worst day yet?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Kemi Badenoch got rebuffed in PMQs by the Prime Minister telling her for the second week in a row she “hadn’t done her homework".
Why isn’t she cutting through? Does she need to do more media interviews? Or might her safe space be the kind of podcasts Trump used to secure the 2024 election? Today we ask if that media exists here in the UK and if not, why not?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | Mr Speaker, the Conservative government established the Ukraine family scheme. |
| 0:20.5 | And in total, over 200,000 Ukrainians, |
| 0:24.9 | mostly women, children and the elderly, have found sanctuary in the UK from Putin's war. |
| 0:30.8 | However, a family of six from Gaza have applied to live in Britain using this scheme. |
| 0:41.0 | And a judge has now ruled in their favour. |
| 0:44.6 | This is not what the scheme was designed to do. |
| 0:47.7 | This decision is completely wrong. |
| 0:49.7 | It cannot be allowed to stand. |
| 0:53.5 | Is the government planning to appeal on any points of law? |
| 0:55.2 | And if so, which wants? |
| 1:01.8 | Mr. Speaker, let me be clear. I do not agree with the decision. She's right, it's the wrong decision. |
| 1:08.4 | She hasn't quite done her homework because the decision, the decision in question was taken under the last government. |
| 1:12.0 | It's the second week running where... under the last government, according to the legal framework of the last government. |
| 1:17.9 | It's the second week running where Kemi Baitnock hasn't done her homework. |
| 1:22.3 | She's having a few problems landing a blow at Prime Minister's questions. |
| 1:27.5 | So it seems she's developing a new communication strategy. |
| 1:35.1 | She's considering taking her leaf out of Donald Trump's playbook, finding a sphere of right-wing podcasts to get her message out. But can that work here? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:45.3 | The Newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:46.9 | It's John. |
| 1:47.7 | It's Emily. |
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