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The Rest Is Politics

157. Question Time: Knocking over Liz Truss, Oxbridge dominance, and life under the Taliban

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

News, Government, Politics

4.511.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Should MPs be able to vote electronically? Is Oxbridge as dominant as it used to be in British society? Are opinion polls just the junk food of political journalism? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more on today’s episode 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 this politics question time with me, Boris Stewart.

0:11.6

And me, Aleister Campbell. And Aleister, how are you? Where are you?

0:14.9

I'm alright, I'm in France. I had a very nice time in Buckston at the book festival.

0:20.2

Oh yes! I looked everywhere, I looked everywhere for your wedding ring.

0:24.2

It was pouring with rain rather depressingly because it meant the cricket didn't finish

0:28.9

because I was kind of hoping to get from Buckston over a bit of the test match.

0:32.4

But no, I couldn't see anywhere, absolutely nowhere. But they're all looking, they're all still looking, Roy.

0:36.4

Right, question time, question time. Right, let me ask the first one because I think you will be

0:39.7

interested in this. Kelvin Zhang, Rory, based on your experience in Afghanistan, what do you think

0:44.1

about Tobias L Woods media campaign to establish diplomatic ties with the Taliban run Afghan government

0:50.0

where his videos portray Afghanistan as running things rather well? What are the implications for

0:55.2

women's rights and other major points of contention with the Taliban?

0:58.4

I mean, I think very few people will have missed this story in the UK.

1:02.0

Tobias L Woods, who's the chair of the Defence Select Committee, returned from a visit with the

1:07.4

Halo Trust, which is a great British mine clearing charity. And he was in Afghanistan and came back

1:13.9

and posted a video talking about how things in Afghanistan were better than he had feared and

1:20.4

encouraging people to reopen diplomatic relationships with the Taliban government. And he found himself

1:27.0

under a barrage of abuse and attack that you cannot believe. And at the end of a week, I think he

1:32.9

retracted his video message, delicited it and apologised. Some of it was incredibly unfair.

1:40.4

So people like Mark Francois and other sort of right-wing Brexitiers and the Defence Select Committee

1:46.8

turned against him and basically tried to accuse him of being a sort of traitor or not patriotic

1:52.4

enough for what he said, which is outrageous. I mean, Tobias L Woods was a serving British

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