100 days of Sunak, the art of resigning, and Israel-Palestine
The Rest Is Politics
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🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After 100 days as PM, is Rishi Sunak’s power already waning? What happens behind the scenes of a high-profile resignation? Has the US pivoted away from its central involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict?
Alastair and Rory cover all the latest political news from both the UK and abroad in today's episode of The Rest Is Politics.
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| 1:21.3 | Welcome to another episode of The RestisPolitics with me, Alistair Campbell. |
| 1:24.9 | And with me, Maurice Stewart. And we're going to talk about matters, |
| 1:28.9 | Nadim Zaharwe, matters, Richard Sharp, the BBC, and the Boris Johnson's sleaze. We're going to |
| 1:36.2 | talk about, soon act more generally, how is he doing after his first 100 days? We're on the third |
| 1:41.8 | anniversary of the exit from European Union. I suspect we may touch upon that. And I think we |
| 1:46.4 | need to touch on the Middle East as well. And also, I'm very keen to talk about Nagorno Karabakh. |
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