What Musk's money could do for Reform UK
Daily Politics from the New Statesman
The New Statesman
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It's the last listener questions episode of 2024!
Hannah Barnes is joined by Rachel Cunliffe and George Eaton to discuss Elon Musk's support and intentions for Reform UK.
The team also consider how Children Not In School register could help increase children's safety and wellbeing, especially considering up to 300,000 children may have been missing from education entirely in 2023.
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The podcast will be taking a break over Christmas but we'll be back on Monday to review the year in UK politics.
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| 0:31.5 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes and this is where I put your pressing political questions to the New Statesman's team. |
| 0:51.7 | Today I am joined by our senior editor, George Eaton, and our associate political editor, Rachel Cunliff. |
| 0:52.7 | Hello, both. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello. |
| 0:53.5 | Hello. |
| 1:00.0 | Right, let's kick off with a question which was sent in via newsstatesman.com forward slash you ask us. |
| 1:12.5 | And this is from Daniel Rust, who asks, will a children not in school register, as proposed by the children's well-being and schools bill actually make any children safer. |
| 1:19.7 | Now, this is the idea of a register of children who are not in school, which was also pledged by the Conservatives, |
| 1:22.3 | but it's being taken forward this week by Labour. |
| 1:29.2 | It's part of a bill put forward to Parliament on the same day that the father and stepmother of 10-year-old Sarah Sharif were sentenced to life in prison for her brutal and utterly |
| 1:36.0 | sickening murder. |
| 1:38.4 | Anyone who's followed the case has probably been moved to tears over it. |
| 1:43.0 | Sarah had been taken out of school months before she died, |
| 1:47.1 | but the family had long been known to the local council. So Daniel asks, will this idea of a |
| 1:53.7 | register help, or is it bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake? |
| 1:58.2 | Hannah, you've written a lot about this case. What do you think? Do you think it would have helped? |
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