154. Question Time: Ben Wallace, intellectual PMs, and the fight for the Israeli flag

The Rest Is Politics

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News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Will Rory run for London Mayor next year? What will Ben Wallace's political legacy look like? Why are left and right fighting over the Israeli flag? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer the TRIP mailbag for this week's edition of Question Time. 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, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the rest of Spongebob's Question Time with me, Anastakamble, and me, Rory Stewart.
0:11.4	So Rory, should we start with Ben Wallace?
0:13.3	Uh-huh.
0:14.3	Yes.
0:15.3	I want to start with this one because of the name of the person who's asked the question,
0:18.1	Rory Conboy.
0:19.1	Oh my goodness.
0:20.1	Yeah.
0:21.1	I'd like to know Rory Anastak's opinions of Ben Wallace.
0:23.4	We rarely hear about him in the news.
0:25.1	I'm not sure about that, as we do home secretaries, et cetera, but he's been talented for
0:29.4	PM before, and now NATO chief, yet I doubt many people know who he is.
0:33.8	I guess he is fairly low profile for a defense secretary in the middle of a war.
0:37.9	Yeah, he was very high profile, of course, at the beginning of the war.
0:41.4	And I think, you know, it was impressed a lot of people when he was Boris Johnson's defense
0:46.1	secretary, which put him in, he was leading the polls, uh, when Boris Johnson stepped
0:50.7	down to be the potential Liz Truss alternative, and again, to be the potential Rishi Sunerkel
0:56.4	alternative, but chose not to run in either situation.
1:01.3	And I believe it's now signaling that he's going to stand down at the next election.
1:04.9	No, you said it.
1:05.9	He's going.
1:06.9	He's somebody who I've known for a very, very long time.
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