179. Is Keir Starmer ready to be Prime Minister?
The Rest Is Politics
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🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Sky, where you can watch the brand new series of political |
| 0:05.5 | thriller, Cobra Rebellion. This is, if my counting is correct, series 3. Ah, yes. Robert Carlisle, |
| 0:14.4 | with a Y, is back as Prime Minister. I'm sure you're going to prove it's Scott in number 10, |
| 0:20.0 | which is what we want everybody. That's, that's always good. Yeah, absolutely. So this, |
| 0:23.8 | this series, Prime Minister Robert Sutherland, facing more challenges than ever before. So his |
| 0:28.7 | popularity is plummeting. There's a new controversial police protest bill. His administration's |
| 0:34.2 | plunged into chaos when an environmental demonstration ends with grave consequences. That's pretty |
| 0:38.5 | familiar stuff. And as the inquest into the protests gets underway, the Prime Minister and his |
| 0:43.4 | government begin to realize that all is not as it seems. With his daughter potentially |
| 0:48.4 | in broir with a group behind it all, his interest in the case isn't purely political. The Rebellion |
| 0:53.2 | will push Sutherland to the edge and force him to question what he's personally willing to sacrifice. |
| 0:58.7 | In order to stand power. So someone should appeal to both of us, Alistair. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, I must admit, I did at times when I was working in number 10, |
| 1:05.6 | worry what my daughter might get up to, but thankfully she went down the comedy route. |
| 1:10.0 | Now, if you haven't watched Cobra before, it is a really dramatic political thriller. |
| 1:15.6 | You do get that sense of being behind the scenes of a government that's in crisis imploding. |
| 1:20.7 | And you go right into the decision room. And of course, that's a place that you and I both had |
| 1:26.4 | our experience of being. I can think about Cobra, which by the way, people should understand |
| 1:32.8 | all it means is cabinet office briefing room A. It sounds like it's sort of name after a snake, |
| 1:38.5 | but it's as simple as that. But what comes to mind with me, 9-11? |
| 1:43.2 | We use it, obviously, as you can imagine, for a lot of things. But it was actually very useful |
| 1:47.1 | during the floods as a way of getting all the operational data up and the weather information |
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