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The Rest Is Politics

167. Question Time: How to rig an election, Scotland's golden goose, and the least impressive president of all time

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

News, Politics, Government

4.511.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

How did Mnangagwa win the Zimbabwe election? Who is the least impressive world leader Rory and Alastair have met? What makes a good political memoir? Join Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell as they answer all these questions and more on today's episode of TRIP Question Time. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, 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. 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 RSS Politics Question Time with me, Alistair Campbell, and with me, Rory Stewart.

0:12.8

We should kick off with, pardon the pun, we should kick off with Louise Urubiales, because

0:18.3

we said we were going to do it in the main podcast, but we got right down into the weeds

0:21.6

of pregozion and modion, your interview techniques.

0:25.3

Aling, would he have kissed a male player on the lips?

0:28.4

What do you think?

0:29.4

I think this is the main point for me.

0:30.9

What a shame that this controversy has overshadowed the team's phenomenal achievement.

0:35.0

I'm assuming, Rory, that despite your antipathy to football, you are aware of this story.

0:39.3

Yeah, this story about the fact that after the Spanish women's football team won the World Cup,

0:45.4

one of their players was kissed on the lips, Jenny Hamosa, and although the Spanish official has

0:51.9

said that it was consensual, she has absolutely denied that it was consensual, so the question

0:56.8

of sex assault, obviously it's been brought forward because he has some non-consensually

1:01.4

Brad Trump kissed on the lips.

1:02.7

I mean, he's got a long track record of this guy.

1:05.6

He's been involved in all sorts of stories to do with using federation funds for orgies,

1:12.6

and it's not the first time that he's been the centre of controversy in Spain.

1:17.0

But I think it must have been really interesting about this.

1:19.5

I mean, in Spain, I was talking to somebody in Spain the other night.

1:21.8

It is absolutely all that anybody is talking about, because it feels a bit like the

1:26.2

kind of hallmate, me two thing again.

1:28.2

Now, you have some people who will be saying, oh, what's the fuss about?

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