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Jake Wallis Simons, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Labour’s retreat from reality, the Brexit betrayal and the next migrant crisis.

On the full, extended episode, they discuss the Hamas terrorist with a British passport and how country pubs, warm ale and black labradors became ‘far right’.

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