Why aren’t the Tories more scared?

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Overnight Israeli began its ground war in Lebanon. They’re targeting Hezbollah but inevitably ordinary Lebanese citizens will pay a heavy price. Iran, which backs Hezbollah, has said it may strike Israel in retaliation. How should western leaders respond to this escalation? And how can it end? We speak to Shadow Foreign Secretary, Andrew Mitchell.

Later, have the Tories found their new Brexit? Why is Robert Jenrick promising that leaving the ECHR can solve immigration (it can’t)? And why aren’t they a little more scared this week when they reflect on the mountain they have to climb back to power?

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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.
0:13.0	So the choices, leave or remain? Leave and get foreign terrorists and criminals off our streets.
0:20.7	End illegal migration.
0:22.6	Finish what Brexit started and restore sovereignty to our people and our parliament.
0:27.6	And the nation of Magna Carta, habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights,
0:31.6	protecting and enhancing our own freedoms or remain.
0:35.6	And let the madness continue. So I'm for leave. What about you?
0:41.2	Sorry, what? Leave or remain? We're not back here again, are we? It's 2024. Yes, but this time
0:49.0	round, it's the European Court of Human Rights. And it looks like Robert Jenrick, the Tory leadership candidate,
0:56.4	is hoping that this could be the new Brexit for the Conservative Party.
1:02.3	But there are awful lot of untruths being told and oversimplifications being made.
1:08.1	Welcome to the Newsagents.
1:16.1	The Newsagents. The news agents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis.
1:21.8	And we'll have a lot more on the Conservative Party's deliberations, maybe delusions, a little later in the podcast. But obviously, we've got to start with what happened overnight with an Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon,
1:30.8	what that means for the region, what this escalation could presage, what happens next, how much of an incursion it is.
1:39.6	Because at the moment, we don't know that much in terms of detail.
1:43.3	Yeah, I mean, this is the moment in a way that everybody has been holding their breath for
1:47.0	and worried about. Basically, Israeli troops crossed into Lebanon overnight begin ground invasion,
1:53.6	albeit potentially limited one so far, after two weeks of devastating airstrikes against Hezbollah targets.
2:01.2	Israeli military said this morning that it had begun, quote,
2:04.5	limited, localized and targeted raids against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
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