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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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More protests at migrant hotels took place this weekend - with people trying to break into a hotel in Canary Wharf on Sunday. As things escalated, rumours started to swirl. Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi posted that police had banned all protest outside the hotel- only for the Met to point out that no such ban existed. Another Conservative MP quoted a video claiming (incorrectly) to show an illegal Deliveroo worker getting a police escort. So why are some Tories spreading misinformation? And why are they talking about 'revolts' against the 'regime'?
And, as Lewis returns from Japan we take a look at the rise of the far right in the recent Japanese election. Who is behind the party founded on YouTube and taking notes straight from Donald Trump?
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0:12.2 | We're going to go. That is a sound and indeed a sight which is becoming more and more familiar with each passing week. |
0:32.6 | That was Canary Wharf, the latest place where anti-migrants, anti-asylum seeker, anti-asylum-seeker, |
0:41.5 | hotel protests have taken place with moms and others from the area, taking to the streets, |
0:48.2 | chanting, what do we want, the boats to stop, when do we want it now? |
0:52.7 | There is an air of crisis, almost of moral panic over what is happening with the small boat arrivals and the migrant hotels. |
1:01.5 | But are things as bad as they seem? |
1:04.7 | And why does it appear that some on the Tory benches are stoking this? |
1:09.8 | Welcome to the news agents. The news agents. It's John. It's |
1:18.7 | Lewis. Konichiwa. Thank you. Same to you. Same to you, pal. So back from Japan, good trip. |
1:25.6 | Very good. Very good. Thank you. Thank you for bowing as I came in. |
1:28.3 | I appreciate that. Bowing and scraping. Indeed so. Rightly so. Which is what you've had written |
1:32.1 | into the contract, which is what I must do now when you arrive. We'll be coming back to Japan later on. |
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2:00.0 | the newsagents.com. |
2:01.6 | UK. |
2:02.6 | We are going to talk about this question of migrant hotels, asylum seeker hotels, whatever you want to call them. |
2:09.2 | And obviously, it's something which has bedeviled British politics now for at least a year longer. |
2:15.0 | And we seem to have with each week obviously it's been happening in |
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