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Radio 4,07 Sep 2026,45 mins

Portsmouth protests over small boats arrivals

World at One

Available for 29 days

We hear from a protester and discuss whether we are seeing a new migrant route into Britain. Also on the programme, John Healey pledges to control public spending but refuses to rule out tax rises in his first speech as Chancellor. We have analysis from our Economics Editor, Faisal Islam, and from former Conservative Chancellor Sir Jeremy Hunt. We bring you an update as Germany's leader, Friedrich Merz, says that the AfD's victory in a key state, ‘is an election result we cannot simply move past.' And, as artificial intelligence looks to verify the proof of one of mathematics' most enduring problems, we speak to a mathematician who has been trying to do the same.

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