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Nish Kumar

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Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Is there a threat to him that he's bringing in some

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Certainly in Robert Jenrick, relatively high profile figures from the British right.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Get an interview, Liam.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

You could write a whole book about somebody defecting from Greens to reform.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Liam, what's behind this delay?

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

For context, for listeners who might not be fully aware of some of the details of this, the police initially blamed the fans.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

They fed false stories of drunken hooliganism to the press.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

There was an infamous Sun front page that alleged that Liverpool fans had, and this is a direct quote, urinated on the brave cops and...

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

pick the pockets of victims.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

A 2012 independent panel found that 164 police statements had been altered.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

This is direct interference by the state.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

It's an institutional cover-up.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

And I think, Liam, I think you're so correct to...

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

bracket this with the post office scandal and the infected blood scandal and discuss it as part of a pattern of institutional cover-ups within the British state.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Ian Byrne, who's the MP for Liverpool West and has been a longtime campaigner for the law said, it's imperative that any legislation leaving the commons is truly worthy of being called the Hillsborough law.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

before it proceeds to the Lords.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Would you say that that is a sentiment being shared by the families at the moment, that it's not so much an anger that this thing is being delayed as it is a real burning desire from everybody who's been campaigning for it for so long to get it right?

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

You're an experienced journalist.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

You've written about a huge number of stories over the years.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

And, you know, especially on the political side of things, there's so much weekly churn.