2020: An extraordinary year in Westminster
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The Times
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🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
All this week we look back at the biggest stories of the last twelve months. Today: We ask Matt Chorley and Esther Webber to assess the standout moments from the most eventful political year in living memory.
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Guest:
Matt Chorley, writer and broadcaster for The Times.
Esther Webber, Red Box reporter for The Times.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and sees apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:19.9 | Bad management costs employers around 84 billion pounds a year. |
| 0:25.0 | Good management is a skill set, not just a job title. |
| 0:28.8 | It needs to be recognized, nurtured and practiced. |
| 0:38.0 | And yet 82% of new managers in the UK are promoted without formal management training. At the Chartered Management Institute, we're working to change that. |
| 0:43.0 | Imagine if you made it your business to change that too. |
| 0:47.0 | Take action. |
| 0:48.0 | Search CMI Action. This week as is traditional it's go back over 2020 time and today it's politics, you know what was past, what wasn't, who |
| 1:06.2 | coped, who didn't, who was sacked, who should have been sacked, who was |
| 1:10.9 | caught out but somehow stuck around. |
| 1:14.0 | We drove for roughly half an hour and ended up on the outskirts of Barna Castle Town. |
| 1:20.0 | We did not visit the castle. |
| 1:22.0 | It is important for votes to be physical because we are coming here together as a single parliament |
| 1:27.2 | and we are voting on things that have a major effect on people's lives. |
| 1:32.0 | To have no deal would be a failure of negotiation, a failure that has to be owned by the Prime Minister. |
| 1:38.0 | He promised the British people he'd get a good deal. He needs to deliver on that promise. |
| 1:42.0 | Lots of jobs are at risk, lots of businesses are suffering, which is why we've put in place |
| 1:47.2 | all the measures we have. It's to provide that bridge, that lifeline. |
| 1:56.3 | You took decisions that we thought on balance were the right ones. So despite our best intentions I do acknowledge that we did not get this right and I'm sorry |
| 2:01.8 | for that. Those are some of the characters in the |
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