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The Rest Is Politics

103. Question Time: Expensing helicopters, the North-South divide, and Rory's return to politics?

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

Politics, Government, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Will Rory ever return to politics? How do MPs serve effectively from remote areas? Should Russia be allowed to compete in the Paris Olympics? Alastair and Rory cover these topics, plus the role of Cabinet Secretaries, Biden's State of the Union Address, and what it means to be a 'recovering politician'. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of The Restless Politics Question Time with me, Alistair Campbell and with me, Rory Stewart.

0:14.0

Now, Rory, we taught in the main podcast about the earthquake in Turkey, but very good question here from Fred Banning.

0:22.0

Reports this week suggest that Turkey has raised £30 billion in earthquake tax since 1999.

0:28.0

That's the earthquake that I mentioned in the main podcast, but it's unclear where the money has gone.

0:33.0

How can those denating to the disaster emergencies commit you appeal and other organizations do so with confidence that the money will get to where it's needed?

0:42.0

And I guess that's something you have to wrestle with as a charity head the whole time.

0:46.0

Yeah, so we're actually involved in a very small way in the response to Turkey's area because one of the things that you need to provide

0:53.0

and it's something give directly provides is cash support to people when families are wiped out because it allows them to meet their immediate needs.

1:00.0

Sometimes you get a problem, which is that you guess that what everyone in town needs is tense and actually they've got shelter and what they need is food.

1:07.0

So cash allows you to adapt that.

1:09.0

The answer is disaster emergency committee and their appeal goes through NGOs that I admire immensely.

1:16.0

NGOs like Save the Children that I've praised the loss on this on the show others like Oxfam.

1:21.0

I've got a lot of admiration for and they absolutely are getting this money directly out on the ground.

1:27.0

It's not being handed over to the Turkish government and the same is true with our operations to give directly.

1:31.0

We as the name implies we take cash from the public.

1:34.0

We put it straight into the hands as a recipients on the ground.

1:37.0

We're not putting it through the Turkish government.

1:39.0

OK, big Kenny.

1:42.0

I don't know if that is King Kenny Dalgley.

1:44.0

I know his daughter is a listener but I don't know about Kenny himself.

1:48.0

Kelly left to tell us are the Tories trying to leave the country in such a bad state because they know labor going to win the next election.

1:55.0

That way they can blame them for everything and try to cut it to one table opposite.

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