Inside out: How to fix the UK’s prison system + Labour embraces unpopularity

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News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The government has won a vote in the commons over its controversial winter fuel payments - but Keir Starmer knows he’s not winning over the public. Unpopular decisions are the theme of the day as Nish returns to join Coco on the PSUK couch.

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0:00.0	Hi this is Pod Save the UK, I'm Coco Khan.
0:05.6	And I'm Nishkumar and this week we're embracing the government's new found unpopularity.
0:09.6	And later we're joined by two very special guests to discuss the challenges facing our prison system. But first
0:16.4	Nish is back. Return of the Mac. Where have you been? I've been on tour. I was off last week because I was doing a last minute run of previews just before the
0:26.3	tour started and the tour is up and running.
0:29.3	Well obviously I'm heavily biased but I have seen the show and is fantastic and probably libelous.
0:34.7	It's definitely not libelous. I want that to make you make very clear.
0:38.7	For any lawyers listening who aren't going to come to the show. It's definitely 100% not libelous.
0:43.7	But it may be adjacent?
0:45.7	I believe that it's legally caveats sufficient.
0:48.4	Okay. It is a spicy show and if you would like to see a legally
0:53.6	caveated show you should absolutely get tickets.
0:56.4	It's on running around the country to end in November.
0:58.4	I'm off to Scotland tomorrow.
0:59.8	I'm off to Glasgow tomorrow, Glasgow Aberdeen, Edinburgh. I am all over the entire
1:04.2	United Kingdom and I'm also doing a day in Dublin which I'm very excited about.
1:09.2	But anyway let's get into the political news of the week where Kistabha asks, well who wants to be popular anyway?
1:16.0	We're going to have to be unpopular.
1:18.0	Tough decisions are tough decisions.
1:21.0	Popular decisions aren't tough, they're easy. When we talk about tough decisions... decisions. from I'm convinced that because they've run away from difficult decisions we haven't got the change we need for the country.
1:36.0	That's Kiestarma who seems to have aged a hundred years in the last couple of weeks
1:40.0	speaking to the BBC's Laura Koonsburg last Sunday.
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