Can Michael Gove stop people dying in Britain's mouldy homes?

11/30/22 • 40 min

In the third episode of The i Podcast, host Molly Blackall speaks to i Housing Correspondent Vicky Spratt and Chief Political Correspondent Richard Vaughan about Michael Gove’s plan to fix the UK’s housing crisis.

Vicky takes us into the home of Andie Williams, a social housing tenant living in a 60s block in Westminster with her four children, who are just one of many families across the country experiencing the same dangerous levels of mould and damp.

Less than a mile down the road from where Andie lives, Vicky sits down with the Housing Secretary Michael Gove in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, to ask him what he plans to do about Britain's poor housing.

In our second segment i‘s Northern Football Correspondent Mark Douglas phones in from Qatar where he’s successfully found the only British pub in Doha. A haven of plentiful beer, trophy-shaped glasses and even fish and chips, he explains why the Red Lion pub has become a gathering spot for fans from all over the world.

Read Mark's article here: https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2022-inside-qatar-only-british-pub-1995981

Catch up on Vicky's coverage of the housing crisis here: https://inews.co.uk/author/vicky-spratt

If you'd like to take up our very special Black Friday offer for 50% off a digital subscription go to inews.co.uk/podcast and support our journalism in the process.

Produced by Basil Oxtoby. The Executive Producer is Albert Evans.

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Read Mark's article here: https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2022-inside-qatar-only-british-pub-1995981

Catch up on Vicky's coverage of the housing crisis here: https://inews.co.uk/author/vicky-spratt

If you'd like to take up our very special Black Friday offer for 50% off a digital subscription go to inews.co.uk/podcast and support our journalism in the process.

Produced by Basil Oxtoby. The Executive Producer is Albert Evans.

Music featured is by Michael Kobrin and Lexin Music - licensed via Pixabay.

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Why has Rishi Sunak turned to Gordon Brown for advice?

On the second episode of The i Podcast, we are joined by our lobby team to discuss the unlikely relationship between new PM Rishi Sunak and elder statesman Gordon Brown, and why they have more in common than you might think.

i's Political Editor Hugo Gye and Deputy Political Editor Arj Singh have uncovered details about Rishi Sunak's relationship with the former Labour PM and what it tells us about the new Government and its attempts to steer the UK through the economic crisis.

We then head over to the streets of Colchester where i's People Writer Eleanor Peake has lifted the lid on the schism in the world of "gimps" and why one man in Essex is angry at the so-called "Somerset gimp" for giving them all a bad name.

Rishi Sunak’s unlikely friendship with Gordon Brown revealed

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-friends-gordon-brown-tories-gone-new-labour-help-1981867

The Essex Gimp: ‘The Somerset Gimp is giving gimps a bad name’

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/gimp-man-essex-somerset-community-1975853

Produced by Julia Webster. The Executive Producer is Albert Evans.

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Are Leave voters changing their minds on Brexit?

In this week’s episode of The i Podcast, we are taking a deep dive into the divided world of Brexit.

Our exclusive new polling shows that something significant is changing: many of those who voted to leave the EU are now regretting their decision.

To help shed light on what is going on – and what it means for the UK we are joined by North of England reporter Steve Robson who has been pounding the pavements in the towns of Cheshire chatting to voters about how they feel about Britain’s EU exit.

Also joining us from somewhere “deep from the bowels” of Parliament, our Chief Political Commentator Paul Waugh gives us the inside scoop from the much-maligned Westminster bubble and how our politicians are responding to the fallout from Brexit.

Then we are joined by Money and Business reporter Laurie Havelock who has been looking at the growing role of cryptocurrencies in divorce proceedings around the world.

Read Steve's article here: https://inews.co.uk/news/leave-voters-changed-minds-brexit-2002261

Produced by Julia Webster. The Executive Producer is Albert Evans with additional production by Phoebe Fleming.

Music featured is by Michael Kobrin and Lexin Music - licensed via Pixabay.

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