breakfast briefing: audio

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1. 1▶‘Britain’s economy buckles as inflation, unemployment and debt costs soar — plus Andy Burnham’s “Number 10 North” growth gamble, his costly rough-sleeping pledge and the EU migration pact that could force Britain to take thousands more asylum seekers’The Julia Hartley-Brewer Show32:37Notes
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2. 2▶Breakfast Briefing Newspaper Review 19th August 2026Breakfast Briefing9:45
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3. 3▶A vigil for former Cambridge professor Jason Arday has descended into furious accusations against Britain’s media, with campaigners demanding a public inquiry and tighter press regulation.The Julia Hartley-Brewer Show30:12Notes
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4. 4▶Breakfast Briefing Newspaper Review 18th August 2026Breakfast Briefing8:24
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5. 5▶‘Reform’s benefits bombshell: Robert Jenrick vows to slash £50 billion from welfare and ban a million foreign nationals from claiming — plus the Jason Arday fallout, Britain’s emergency-alert fiasco and criminals spared jail’The Julia Hartley-Brewer Show39:11Notes
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6. 6▶Breakfast Briefing Newspaper Review 17th August 2026Breakfast Briefing8:53
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7. 7▶Fury over Andy Burnham’s migrant redistribution plan… and are eco do-gooders linked to wildfires?The Julia Hartley-Brewer Show26:06Notes
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8. 8▶Breakfast Briefing Newspaper Review 13th August 2026Breakfast Briefing9:18
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9. 9▶Andy Burnham’s calls for people to 'play their part' on asylum housingThe Julia Hartley-Brewer Show31:52Notes
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10. 10▶Breakfast Briefing Newspaper Review 12th August 2026Breakfast Briefing8:59
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11. 11▶Mega-Dinghy Migrant Crisis Erupts while Burnham Faces Prison Release BacklashThe Julia Hartley-Brewer Show37:47Notes
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12. 12▶Breakfast Briefing Newspaper Review 11th August 2026Breakfast Briefing7:59
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13. 13▶Burnham's announces tour of Britain to enter 'listening mode'... as Britain faces 89,000 more crimes from early prison releasesThe Julia Hartley-Brewer Show37:55Notes
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14. 14▶Breakfast Briefing Newspaper Review 10th August 2026Breakfast Briefing9:38
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15. 15▶Breakfast Briefing Newspaper Review 7th August 2026Breakfast Briefing5:58
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16. 16▶Poster boy Cambridge Professor resigns after his reported lies unravelThe Julia Hartley-Brewer Show38:12Notes
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17. 17▶Breakfast Briefing Newspaper Review 6th August 2026Breakfast Briefing10:16
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18. 18▶Men in women’s toilets, domestic abusers freed early and a former neo-Nazi standing for the Tories — plus Labour’s votes-at-16 plan risks unleashing a wave of Gaza independents’The Julia Hartley-Brewer Show37:20Notes
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19. 19▶Breakfast Briefing Newspaper Review 5th August 2026Breakfast Briefing8:31
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20. 20▶Andy Burnham blocks early release for rapists — but killers and domestic abusers could still walk free, as Britain’s prison crisis spirals’The Julia Hartley-Brewer Show35:31Notes
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21. 21▶Andy Burnham vows to be “relentless” as 2,000 Channel migrants arrive — plus Reform’s Royal Navy plan, police urged to fast for Ramadan and the Cambridge professor facing extraordinary questions over his life story’The Julia Hartley-Brewer Show37:09Notes
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