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On last week's #Peston livestream Sayeeda Warsi explained why the conversations she's having with David Baddiel in their new podcast ‘A Muslim & A Jew Go There’ feel so timely and important

+ why Liverpool star Mo Salah would be a dream guest one day 👀

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Food insecurity in the UK is rising📈

7.2m people were food insecure in 2022/23, up from 4.7m in 2021/22

26% of UK black households are food insecure, up 10%

30% of social renters are food insecure, up 7%

Watch Anushka Asthana explain new Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis👇

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“You could probably raise over £1bn maybe up to £3bn… not paying what are quite high interest to the banks”

Former PM Gordon Brown proposes withholding interest payments paid to banks on their reserves at the Bank of England to raise money and combat poverty

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“I understand Governments have to follow the fiscal rules… I myself created some of them”

Gordon Brown says despite the Government’s need to follow financial rules, there “is scope for action” in increasing spending to tackle the “emergency” of “rising poverty”

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“The Labour Party has promised a root and branch review into Universal Credit and I think that’s the right way of doing this”

Gordon Brown says that the two child benefit cap is unfair, and suggests that Labour’s approach to review Universal Credit could alleviate this

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“The EU had a democratic deficit… I thought the EU was heading in the wrong direction”

Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin tells
Robert Peston that Brexit has “restored democracy in the UK”

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Sewage spills into England's rivers and seas more than doubled last year

Watch what Feargal Sharkey had to say about sewage spillages on #Peston ⬇️

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A quarter (26%) of all black households in the UK are at risk of, or unable to afford enough food.

Watch Anushka Asthana break down exclusive Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis of food insecurity in the UK 👇

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“It challenges the very core of our democracy”

Tory Peer Sayeeda Warsi criticises the Conservatives' controversial campaign video criticising London Mayor Sadiq Khan, saying “talking down your own country is not a very Conservative or a very patriotic thing to be doing'

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“On inflation, I think it’s very largely job done”

Former Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane says that inflation is likely to fall below 2% by the end of the year and calls for interest rate cuts, the 'sooner the better”.

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'These fiscal rules are not good'

Former Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane says Jeremy Hunt & Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules are holding back investment and growth, describing them as 'self-defeating on their own terms'.

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“There’s no doubt… it doesn’t look good for us at the next general election”

Tory Peer Sayeeda Warsi responds to the suggestion by polling guru Sir John Curtice that the Conservative Party only has a 1% chance of winning the next general election

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“It is a way of doing it…the risk is the cost is actually not borne by the banks but by them passing on that tax to millions of savers…millions of mortgage holders”

Andy Haldane responds to Gordon Brown’s suggestion of a de facto bank tax to address poverty.

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“There’s an element of cult about a lot of what we do”

Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin insists that he does not judge people who choose to take part in dry January

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.Robert Peston: Do you agree this is not a moment for Britain to be selling arms to Israel?

Sayeeda Warsi: I do agree with that letter.

Tory peer Baroness Warsi says she agrees with MPs & peers who have signed a letter calling on the government to stop selling arms to Israel

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'It may start to impact pubs in small towns'

Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin suggests an increase in the minimum wage may make it tougher for smaller pubs, but Wetherspoons can cope with next week's increase.

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“Most people who are experts in this area didn’t take it very seriously”

Tory Peer Sayeeda Warsi critiques the official review written by Dame Sara Khan, saying it does not address the main problems regarding defining extremism in society

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.Robert Peston: “So it is possible that Labour could in fact support a ban on sales?”

Alison McGovern: “This is an issue for the Government”

Labour’s Shadow Employment Minister stops short of saying that Labour should call for a suspension of UK weapons sales to Israel

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'We've got a couple of those already, but they're related to me'

Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin jokes about the possibility of using robots behind the bar in his chain of pubs.

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