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Sky News
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Sky News
What was behind Starmer's 'Enoch Powell' moment?
👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈 Another week, another sticky situation for the prime minister and some of his MPs - this time it's centred around his language on immigration. When Sir Keir Starmer announced his White Paper, he argued that Britain "risked becoming an island of strangers" if immigration levels were not cut. So was he intentionally evoking Enoch Powell's infamous 1968 Rivers Of Blood speech? Or was this a big mistake? Also, with the Assisted Dying Bill back in parliament this week, Beth Rigby, Ruth Davidson and Harriet Harman go on a tour of the British Isles to look at how different parliaments are approaching their legislation. If MPs in Westminster vote their bill down, could it stop it in its tracks in Holyrood too?
Times
13-05-2025
- Health
- Times
Only 8% of Scots view assisted dying as a priority for Holyrood
Fewer than one in ten Scots believe legalising assisted dying should be a priority for Holyrood, a poll has revealed before a landmark vote on the issue. The survey, commissioned by the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, found that the plan to allow terminally ill people to end their lives legally came bottom of 20 issues that the public viewed were the most important for MSPs to focus on. More than half (57 per cent) picked reducing NHS waiting times when asked to choose up to five priority issues, followed by building affordable housing, investing in social care, controlling immigration and lowering the tax burden. • Ruth Davidson: My cowardly assisted dying decision has haunted me for a decade Just 8 per cent picked 'legalising
Sky News
28-03-2025
- Business
- Sky News
Can Starmer silence the rebels?
👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈 Beth Rigby, Ruth Davidson and Harriet Harman analyse Rachel Reeves's spring statement and how Donald Trump may have made things worse for her. The chancellor has redone her maths to make sure she sticks to her own rules on running the economy - but in doing that she has got tougher on welfare cuts. Can Labour keep the dissenting voices within their own party quiet? Harriet has some insight on how they'll be trying to do that. And do Trump's tariffs on US car imports (and the prospect of more tariffs looming) just put the chancellor on the backfoot anyway? Also, after an American journalist was added to a US government Signal group, how much government business is done on apps? And how much loose-lipped gossip is on there? Meanwhile, as Beth goes into the last few weeks of London marathon training, did we just start the Electoral Dysfunction run club?
