2. Lying, vanity and friendship in politics

The Rest Is Politics

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News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Welcome to the second episode of The Rest Is Politics with Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell! With Ukrainian refugees struggling to claim asylum in the UK, why aren't the British government's actions matching up to its rhetoric? Rory and Alastair discuss the importance of personal relationships in matters of state, and question whether the current honours system is fit for purpose after former education and defence secretary Gavin Williamson was given a knighthood. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Goalhanger Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.4	Hello, I'm Rory Stewart and I'm Aleister Campbell. Welcome to The Restless Politics.
0:27.0	Well, what a start, Aleister. We're top of the iTunes and Spotify charts.
0:31.1	And thank you very, very much to everybody who's been joining us. When was the last time Aleister
0:35.8	you were number one? Oh my god. Well, I've had a few number one best sellers, but not for a few
0:41.8	years, and the last one got into the top ten, but not number one. I guess my last absolute number
0:46.0	one was when leave means leave. Name is their remoner of the year. Something I continue to wear as
0:53.5	a badge of pride given how badly breaks it's going. Remoner of the year. What was it? Remoner of the year
0:58.1	2017. I can't remember when it was 2017 2018. I may even have won it twice. I get to keep the
1:03.6	t-shirt after a while. My best one was I was made GQ politician of the year and I was just getting
1:10.0	up to get my prize in this incredible sort of, yeah, in this enormous hall in the take gallery,
1:15.1	with all these very, very famous people around. None of whom had any idea who I was. I mean,
1:19.5	obviously there were kind of storms either with these Hollywood actors. And I was just getting up to
1:24.0	do my acceptance speech when I got this text from the chief whip telling me I'd just been fired
1:28.4	from the conservative party and my career in politics was over. Was that the one where I don't
1:34.5	know if we're allowed to say this, but that was it was out the one where Billy Connolly made an
1:37.8	absolutely brilliant and borderline obscene speech about a comedian who'd just gone before him.
1:43.1	I missed the whole beginning of the whole thing because I was voting in Parliament. I turned
1:46.6	up a little wheelie bag from Cumbria in a pair of tartan trousers just in time to accept my prize.
1:51.6	I missed the whole thing. Tartan trousers to go with the pinky ring.
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