Borders, bonking and Liam Byrne
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Immigration. The issue which drove so many people to vote to leave the EU before the 2016 EU referendum is back in the news and rising as an issue. Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch, popped by the Red Lion pub to discuss the newest immigration figures of 606,000 net.
It’s also been a big week for Labour's plans for the economy with Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves jetting off (pun intended) to America to deliver her "business model for Britain" speech. One senior Labour MP who is doing some serious thinking about inequality and what the next Labour government needs to do about it is Liam Byrne, MP for Hodge Hill and a former Treasury minister.
Plus, former Boris Johnson aide-turned-novelist Cleo Watson joins Chris to talk about partygate, Cummings and her new novel, "Whips", described as a cross between 50 Shades of Grey and House of Cards.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Shopers Politics |
| 0:05.0 | As much as people try to be as COVID compliant as possible, |
| 0:09.0 | you're also trying to run the country |
| 0:11.0 | and people kind of brush up against each other essentially |
| 0:15.8 | quite hard if you're at Hancock. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to the Red Lion Parb in the heart of Westminster. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm Christopher Hope chopper to my pal's associate editor for politics at the Daily Telegraph and this is |
| 0:28.8 | Chopper's Politics Podcast. Well it's been another topsy-turvy week in Westminster |
| 0:35.1 | with Partygate back and Boris Johnson once again in the news alongside concerns |
| 0:41.0 | too among the very rich about labour's plans for the wealthy. |
| 0:46.3 | So this week we'll be talking to Liam Byrne, a former Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury |
| 0:51.8 | about wealth and inequality and what a |
| 0:54.5 | Labour government might do about it. Oh and a certain note about there being no |
| 0:59.9 | money left. Remember that? And Cleo Watson, a former deputy chief of staff |
| 1:04.8 | to Boris Johnson, who lived through the Partygate saga along with other Tory |
| 1:09.5 | government dramas, she'll be here to discuss her new book, Whips, and a little in on what it's really like |
| 1:15.0 | working with Dominic Cummings. But first, immigration. It's an issue which drove so many people |
| 1:21.3 | to vote to leave the European Union before the 2016 |
| 1:25.2 | referendum and it's back in the news and rising as an issue amongst voters. |
| 1:30.3 | This week the government announced a record 606,000 people, net, came to the UK last year. |
| 1:37.0 | With me to discuss those figures is Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch. |
| 1:41.6 | Alp, welcome to Choppers Politics Podcast. |
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