{"id":342172,"date":"2025-12-30T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342172\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T04:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:40:08","slug":"67-weird-phrases-that-defined-british-politics-in-2025-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342172\/","title":{"rendered":"67 weird phrases that defined British politics in 2025 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

25. One in, one out: Britain and France struck a treaty for small boat crossings \u2014 until one returned migrant recrossed the English Channel to Blighty. \u00a0<\/p>\n

26. Zacktavist: A new generation of Greens got behind \u201ceco-populist\u201d leader Zack Polanksi \u2014 and could treat themselves to a mug with his face on for \u00a37 a pop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

27. Yantar: Russia made its meddling against Britain known by deploying a spy ship<\/a> into territorial waters \u2026 although it failed to remain incognito. \u00a0<\/p>\n

28. Two up, two down: Chancellor Rachel Reeves mooted increasing income tax by 2p and cutting national insurance by 2p \u2026 before (probably) realizing it would mark the end of her time in the Treasury.<\/p>\n

29. Island of strangers: The PM channeled Reform with a speech on migration featuring this phrase. It was compared to former Tory MP Enoch Powell\u2019s infamous \u201cRivers of Blood\u201d speech \u2026 and Starmer later retracted<\/a> the whole thing.<\/p>\n

30. Bob Vylan: A previously obscure rap duo was thrust into the spotlight after calling for \u201cdeath, death to the IDF\u201d [Israel Defence Forces] at Glastonbury. The BBC came under fire, because of course it did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"25. One in, one out: Britain and France struck a treaty for small boat crossings \u2014 until one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,19306,3003,43822,824,625,1343,627,141,9610,461,995,819,59,57,58,2923,308,1349,13936,15025,420,466,65187,821,50,17376,1445,470,154,1352,72363,20836,1668,156,474,18638,426,2366,557,56,157,54,158,55,636,3084,7747,637,121745],"class_list":["post-342172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-americas","tag-andy-burnham","tag-angela-rayner","tag-assisted-dying","tag-boris-johnson","tag-british-politics","tag-courts","tag-david-lammy","tag-donald-trump","tag-ed-miliband","tag-elections","tag-elon-musk","tag-france","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-growth","tag-india","tag-insurance","tag-javier-milei","tag-jd-vance","tag-keir-starmer","tag-liz-truss","tag-lucy-powell","tag-migration","tag-news","tag-plastics","tag-rachel-reeves","tag-rights","tag-russia","tag-services","tag-shabana-mahmood","tag-steve-reed","tag-sweden","tag-tariffs","tag-tax","tag-tony-blair","tag-trade","tag-trade-agreements","tag-transport","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war","tag-waste","tag-wes-streeting","tag-westminster-bubble","tag-zarah-sultana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}