{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/4bee4cf8-df50-445a-9c80-bc573f030fde/698e0c02d6c27a06bb0c80b9?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Votes at 16, colonisation and Labour’s Rotten Elite","description":"<p>Ian Collins takes on a government many critics say is rewriting Britain without voters’ consent.</p><p><br></p><p>As Labour moves to give the vote to 16-year-olds, Joanna Williams, author of How Woke Won, and Darren Hughes, chief executive of the Electoral Reform Society, clash over whether this is democratic renewal — or a cynical attempt to rig the electorate in Labour’s favour.</p><p><br></p><p>We then turn to immigration and national identity, as former Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans reacts to Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s warning that Britain is being “colonised” by mass migration — and Keir Starmer’s demand that he apologise. Are political leaders finally being forced to confront the cost and cultural impact of open borders, or still trying to silence the debate?</p><p><br></p><p>And finally, Christine Jardine MP joins us as Labour faces another storm over alleged establishment protection and links between senior figures and convicted sex offenders — fuelling accusations that Starmer’s government is run by a closed-door elite with one rule for them and another for everyone else.</p>","author_name":"Talk"}