2019 Quiz of the Year: Part one
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
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🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As another bizarre year in politics comes to an end, Matt Chorley poses the questions to see who has been paying most attention.
The MP team has Tom Tugendhat, one of the only Tories not to run for leader this year, and Angela Rayner, one of the only Labour MPs left in Britain.
Patrick Kidd, Times diary editor, and Esther Webber, Red Box reporter, return to see if the reporters’ team can win for a fourth year in a row.
Daniel Finkelstein is joined by Rachel Sylvester on the columnists’ team.
Let’s start as the PM would, by pulling a cracker...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Hello Hello Hello and welcome to this very special edition of the Red Box |
| 0:07.7 | podcast and The Times. I'm Matt Jolly and this is part one of the Red Box |
| 0:12.0 | Quiz of the year. |
| 0:13.0 | Over the next two episodes will test the knowledge of political journalists, |
| 0:16.0 | columnist and MPs to find out who has been paying most attention during 2019. |
| 0:20.0 | Who will emerge with a shock landslide victory and who will be proved to be thicker than a model of Andrew Bridgion made from |
| 0:25.7 | mashed potato. |
| 0:26.7 | Returning champions to political journalist redbox supporter Esther Weber and TMS diary |
| 0:31.2 | editor Patrick Kidd. |
| 0:32.8 | On the columnist team Daniel Finkelstein is back but is upgraded from Hugo Rifkin, his teammate |
| 0:37.1 | last year to be joined by Rachel Sylvester. |
| 0:39.7 | And on the MPs team, one of the only Conservative MPs not to run for leader this summer, |
| 0:43.9 | Tom Tuggenhart and one of the only Labour MPs left in Britain, Angela Rayna. |
| 0:48.2 | But it's okay, Angela, because if you lose you can blame Brexit, weather the media and of course Jeremy |
| 0:54.5 | called him so question number one Angela are you going to run for the labor |
| 0:57.9 | leadership for brutal why did just go in there no no coffee no you know you know, you know. |
| 1:03.0 | There's mint pie. |
| 1:04.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:05.0 | It's going to take more than a mint pie for me to announce on your podcast |
| 1:09.0 | whether I will be running for leader or not. |
| 1:10.0 | So you're not not announcing? |
| 1:12.0 | I'm not announcing anything. I'm playing a |
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