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PoliticsJOE reacts to PMQs (with Noah of Northstar Politics)

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The old PMQs format returns due to popular demand, and Ava and Laura are joined this week by Noah from Northstar Politics to break down another bout between Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch.

Despite the approaching budget, the Starmer-Badenoch exchange felt like déjà vu. Instead, we hear questions from Labour MP Damien Egan, who raised Shabana Mahmood's new and increasingly divisive immigration plans. The Home Secretary unveiled a hardline package that includes Danish-style restrictions and controversial asset-seizing proposals (notably, the Danish Social Democrats suffered sweeping losses in Tuesday night’s municipal and regional elections).

The trio unpack whether Labour’s tightening stance is a genuine attempt at system reform or simply electoral panic aimed at heading off Nigel Farage. They explore why this strategy risks alienating progressives, and why Bristol North East wasn’t the best constituency to take the party line in.

Then comes Lee Anderson, delivering a question about Labour's recent engagement in dogwhistle politics. Ava, Laura and Noah break down his attack lines, Starmer’s response, and what Anderson’s pivot to “Reform-led council achievements” says about the party’s long-term strategy.

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