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Radio 4,04 Oct 2023,45 mins

Sunak's pledge to break 'old consensus'

The World Tonight

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In the biggest speech of his premiership so far, the Prime Minister has launched an attack on his predecessors. One of those predecessors has gone public to criticise the decision to cancel the northern leg of HS2, confirmed in the speech. Rishi Sunak insists every penny of the £36bn intended for it will be spent on other projects. But opinions among northern leaders are divided - we hear from two of them. Also on the programme: The rare testimony of young Albanian man who was trafficked to the UK and forced to work on a cannabis farm. And as Paris is gripped by panic over a bed bug infestation, our correspondent is on the hunt to see them first hand.

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