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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 160 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973
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0:00.0 | A very good morning indeed to you. It is three minutes after ten and you've got ages for a trade deal to come along and then two come along at once. |
0:06.8 | It is expected that a US and UK tariff based treaty or agreement will be announced, I think even perhaps today. |
0:15.4 | So do stay tuned for the details of that. |
0:18.6 | I think something really significant happened yesterday. |
0:22.1 | And when you couple it with the local election results of the previous week, |
0:27.0 | it, I think sounds a very, very loud alarm bell for the Labour Party, for the Labour government. |
0:35.0 | I'm not quite sure where I'm going at the moment with this. |
0:39.7 | So bear with, right? |
0:41.3 | And we'll work towards something that we can explore together. |
0:45.2 | I can tell you now that it is essentially going to involve the question of what Labour has to do differently |
0:53.5 | to either defuse or detoxify debates that |
0:58.9 | circle almost exclusively now around immigration. There's one rather obvious answer to that question, |
1:06.7 | but there is one rather obvious problem with it as well. So that, that I think is going to be the central thrust of where we'll end up in 15 minutes or so, 10 minutes or so. |
1:17.5 | Well, who am I kidding? |
1:18.4 | 25 minutes or no, 10, 10 to 12 minutes or so. |
1:22.6 | That is going to be the central thrust. |
1:24.8 | So you could get in early if you want, but I'd probably wait just a |
1:28.3 | second. Because what happened yesterday that really stayed with me on my way home, and that |
1:34.6 | doesn't always happen. Sometimes I am capable of wandering out of the studio and not really |
1:39.8 | thinking about anything news related for at least a few hours but but some days I just have the sense of a |
1:46.0 | of an unnawed bone banging around in my brain and and something that I just want to carry on I just |
1:52.5 | I want to keep worrying a knot as it were in the hope of untying it and I couldn't quite pin down |
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