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Hello, it's Giles Whittle from Tortoise. Welcome to the news meeting. Claudia, we're going to start with you. Why I think this is such an important story is it's about who the Labour Party is. It's about who we are as a country. And it is about, I suppose, in a big part, who we want to spend money on and how. The issue always on stories about welfare and benefits is that they are often led by poor statistics and stereotypes.
Okay, Matilda, tell us more about Guantanamo 2.0. So on Friday night, in secret, Trump signed a proclamation and he did so in order to rapidly deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants aged 14 or over. Footage was published showing these deportees being deported.
incarcerated in a mega prison in El Salvador and the Salvadorian president posted on X saying, oopsie, too late, with a laughing so hard I'm crying emoji. That is truly Trumpian. Oopsie, too late. I just can't believe someone in senior office is using oopsie. We're going to come to you, Helena. Tell us more about your story. I want to make the case that we need to bring a story that was in the news cycle for one day last week back today.
And that's the story of Louise, Hannah and Carol Hunt. Last week, a 26-year-old man called Kyle Clifford was sentenced to a whole life order for the triple murder of these three women. Many media outlets pointed out that Kyle Clifford was Louise Hunt's ex-boyfriend. But they missed a very crucial opportunity to talk about a key part of fatal domestic abuse. It just makes me think of two phrases that
I've grown up hearing all the time, men are worried women will laugh at them, women are worried men will kill them. And that the most dangerous thing that you can do as a woman is be in a relationship with a man. If you'd like to listen to the full episode, search for The News Meeting wherever you get your podcasts.