Chris Gray

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Newscast · Who’s Causing The Violence In Belfast? · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

The initial attack and then the sort of thuggery that followed after it.

The parallel I was just really struck by, Adam, with Prime Minister's questions today was how similar it was to a week ago in one sense, in that you had this huge issue dominating the news agenda.

And the Conservative leader, Cammy Badenoch, deciding, judging, that she would rather talk about something else.

And she pursued a line of questioning about the defence investment plan and investment in the military and all the rest of it, which is a, you know, entirely separate, very important, but entirely separate issue.

And I think grounded, as it was a week ago, when the swirl was all about Henry Novak and the incident in Southampton, both his murder and then also the

the protesting and all the rest of it that followed.

I think a judgment from her that if you are going to make an argument that you don't want to be seen to be, as some would see it, politicizing an issue in this context where there's a live police investigation, in that one, given the amount of tension there was, but also the request of the family to not be seen to sort of politicize it.

The only way to do that is to pursue a completely different line of questioning.

Now, that's not to say it didn't feature.

We heard from the DUP earlier on newscasts from prime minister's questions.

The Liberal Democrat leader, David, raised it as well.

But, yeah, I think a bit of a sense, even though there are clearly loads of wider political questions to ask around immigration, around integration, around the common travel area, et cetera, et cetera, as we have discussed.

Yeah, broadly speaking, it was touched on and brushed by, if you like, by the main party leaders, but wasn't dissected in any... The implications weren't really dissected in any great depth.

Yeah.

So, uh, so he wasn't, uh, he's, he's been in, um, in the make field constituency on the by-election campaign trail, Richard Tice, his deputy did ask a question at, uh, prime minister's questions.

Um, uh, strikingly, uh, reform figures have explicitly and directly and immediately, uh, condemned, uh, condemned violence and, uh,

and the kind of scenes that we have seen whilst raising some of these wider issues.

So they described recent Labour and Conservative immigration policy as treacherous, as they described it.

So they are willing to lean into some of these wider themes that are undeniably important.

in the context of what we've seen this week and indeed what we saw last week for all of the differences that there clearly are between the two things.

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