155: Re-shuffle, Re-signation, Re-form

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Adam, Helen, Ian and Andy discuss the Re-shuffle, the Re-signation of Angela Rayner, and the Re-form government we’re told is inevitable. Plus, ‘Free Speech Corner’ returns - this time about the arrest of Graham Linehan and the difficulties with policing the internet.

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0:00.0	Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.
0:03.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.
0:06.0	My name's Andrew Hunter Murray and I'm here in an undisclosed location with Adam McQueen, Helen Lewis and Ian Heslop.
0:13.0	We're here to discuss the news of the last two weeks, give or take, maybe even the next two weeks.
0:19.0	And we start off with the fact we've got a completely new government.
0:23.6	We've had a reshuffle.
0:25.2	Not completely new, but largely new.
0:27.7	Yeah.
0:27.9	Yes, sorry.
0:28.5	I thought it was largely the same.
0:30.7	With different desks.
0:32.3	The funny thing was, last press day, so we're going back to Monday the 1st of September.
0:55.9	About 10.30, once we thought everything was pretty much done and we knew what copy was coming and nothing else was happening, there's suddenly a big BBC breaking news thing saying, Kirstarmer reshuffle kicks off. And I thought, oh my God, we're going to have to pull apart the entire magazine and redo it complete. And that turned out to be sort of, you know, the minister for paper clips was swapped with the minister for nice biscuits with tea and coffee after cabinet meetings.
0:56.1	Right. And that was pretty much it as far as I could see.
0:57.8	So I thought we were safe at that point. At which point, I disappeared off on holiday for a couple of days. A message from Helen to say, have you seen the news? And to that Angela Rainier resigned. And as you say, we had a largely new cabinet suddenly. Yeah, quite a lot of changes. New, what is it? New Home Secretary.
1:13.9	Foreign Secretary. And as you say, we had a lot, we had a largely new cabinet suddenly. Yeah, quite a lot of changes.
1:11.9	New, what is it, new home secretary, new foreign secretary.
1:14.9	Foreign secretary, new deputy prime minister. And then loads of changes. The two ones that have been gone a bit under the radar is Pat McFadden, who is the kind of last surviving Blairite. and Keir Starmer's big fixer and sort of straightback player on political shows
1:26.6	has ended up at the Department of Work and Pensions.
1:29.3	And Johnny Reynolds, who was a business. Damas big fixer and sort of straight back player on political shows has ended up at the Department
1:27.8	of Work and Pensions.
1:29.2	And Johnny Reynolds, who was a business, has gone to be Chief Whip.
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