Starmer’s Phoney Migration Crackdown

Welcome to Episode 36 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:

Karl Williams, Research Director at the Centre for Policy Studies, and the author of the recent CPS report ‘Here to Stay? Estimating the Scale and Cost of Long-Term Migration’, on why Keir Starmer’s immigration announcement is not as radical as it seems.

Dan Hitchens, Senior Editor at First Things, on what's at stake in the crunch third reading of the assisted suicide Bill.

And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by Tom Jones, writer and Conservative councillor, on Reform’s surge at the local elections, and what they will and won't be able to do with their newly held councils.

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Produced by Richard Eldred.
Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

00:00 Intro
02:00 Karl Williams on Starmer's unradical immigration plan
31:10 Dan Hitchens on the assisted suicide Bill
57:31 Tom Jones on Reform’s local elections landslide