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🗓️ 27 July 2025
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Keir Starmer's meeting with Donald Trump, farming and asylum hotels
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this edition of The Westminster Hour with me, Ben Wright and my guests. |
0:10.1 | Coming up with the Prime Minister meeting the US President during his golfing break in Scotland, |
0:15.5 | we'll be discussing the messages. |
0:17.5 | Sakeas Dama wants to drive home with Donald Trump on the crisis in Gaza and trade between the US and UK. |
0:24.6 | We'll look at the challenges faced by farmers from record rain to the summer drought and a deluge of new government policies. |
0:31.6 | And one year on from the riots which followed the Southport murders is another summer of unrest on the cards focused |
0:39.8 | around asylum hotels, will weigh up the warnings that social cohesion is fraying and ask |
0:45.5 | what ministers can do about it. But first, let's meet my panel. David Pinto Dyshinsky is the |
0:52.5 | Labour MP for Hendon, elected last year with a majority of just 15, |
0:57.7 | making his the most marginal seat at the general election. Although, since then, we've had the |
1:02.7 | Runcorn and Helsby by-election where Sarah Pochin squeaked in for reform by a mere six votes. So |
1:08.4 | you're in comparatively comfortable territory now, David. |
1:12.5 | But it must have been a nerve-wracking night. A bit like watching the lionesses take it all the way to penalties. |
1:17.8 | Well, you know, I spent much of this evening hiding behind the sofa. So, and it's nice to see the lioness is actually winning on penalties for a |
1:29.3 | change. But much like my election night, it's the final result that counts. Before politics, David |
1:36.4 | worked as a management consultant and as a Labour advisor in the Treasury and number 10. The Conservative |
1:42.4 | peer James Bethel joins us down the line to, |
1:45.1 | Good evening, James. Good evening, good evening. Were you watching the game? I was. Gosh, |
1:50.0 | that was tight, wasn't it? I was in a lovely village square in the middle of Spain, |
1:54.7 | and there was a big cheer as all the sort of iPhones pinged the result. It was fantastic. |
1:59.8 | I mean, we half expect England to win these things now, don't we? |
2:03.3 | Well, last year, I was in Spain and we didn't, and it was bloody embarrassing. |
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