Will Rishi Sunak now tell Lee Anderson to "f*** off"?
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🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party Lee Anderson went on TV last night and openly admitted that his own party are failing to 'stop the boats'. That's the same party that announced at the start of this year that one of their five priorities was to ... stop the boats.
Anderson has always been a law unto himself, and sometimes this has worked to Rishi Sunak's benefit. But is he now becoming a serious problem for the Tories as they try to build their case for re-election next year?
And - we speak to the Emily Bolton - founder of Appeal, the charity that helped Andy Malkinson get out of prison - after we spoke to Malkinson yesterday. She has shocking revelations about the state of the prison and justice system in the UK today.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:07.2 | Before we start, just a quick warning that there will be very strong, perhaps salty language |
| 0:11.4 | from the very start of this podcast. And of course, you can blame John. |
| 0:17.2 | This is a global Player original podcast. |
| 0:25.5 | This is out of control. We're in power at the moment. I'm, as you say, the deputy chair of the Conservative Party, we're in government. And we have failed on this. There's no doubt about it. |
| 0:30.4 | That wasn't the Shadow Home Secretary of Eck Cooper, as you could probably tell. That |
| 0:34.5 | wasn't another critical Labour MP or opposition voice. That was the deputy |
| 0:40.6 | chairman of the Conservative Party, the mouth with a licence to kill, Lee Anderson. Yeah, he's already |
| 0:48.3 | mouthed off quite a bit this week because he said to asylum seekers, if you don't like it here, |
| 0:55.8 | you can fuck off back to France. That's one thing, salty language, a popular message, but can you go on the television |
| 1:02.5 | and say our government policy has been a total failure before Rishi Sunak says to him, |
| 1:09.5 | you can fuck off yourself. Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:18.9 | The newsagents. It's Lewis. It's John. And later in the podcast, we're going to be following up the story we devoted yesterday's episode |
| 1:28.7 | to, and that is the false imprisonment of Andy Malkinson. After 17 years, he won his freedom. |
| 1:35.6 | And we're going to talk about the wider legal issues, about what needs to change in the criminal |
| 1:39.7 | justice system. And we'll be discussing that with Emily Bolton who founded the charity appeal which led |
| 1:46.6 | the investigation into his sentencing and the overturning of it. Yeah but first we are going to talk |
| 1:53.6 | about Lee Anderson. I'm not sure where to go from that introduction but let's let's try our best. |
| 1:58.0 | Look I promise not to swear again. Okay. No no don't make promises you can't keep John. Don't do it. You've let me down before. Look, I promise not to swear again, okay? No, no, don't make promises you can't keep, John. |
| 2:02.1 | Don't do it. |
| 2:03.0 | You've let me down before. |
| 2:04.1 | Anyway, look, Lee Anderson, let's just rewind the moment. |
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