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Where Politics Meets History

222. Shut the door on your way out

Where Politics Meets History

Global

News, Politics, History

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2020

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith review another momentous week in politics. They concentrate on the departures of Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings from Number Ten, the presidential transition, the death of Peter Sutcliffe, the Brexit free trade talks and the publication of Iain’s new book, THE PRIME MINISTERS. Smut content: For a Saturday, high. They’ve let themselves down. Again.

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0:00.0

I'm in a thoroughly bad mood.

0:12.6

Oh, no change there then,

0:13.8

what's occurring, love?

0:17.1

Well, you know I'm having this new shop website designed.

0:19.9

I'm having rouse with my website designer who just cannot get it into his head while I'm telling him. I tell him and then he says, well, I don't understand. I said, well, I don't know how to explain it in more simple terms. And then he comes back with terminology that I haven't got a clue what he's talking about. So I'm, we're doing all of this by WhatsApp and I'm rapidly losing my temper.

0:39.9

So you are my light relief. Oh, I always like to provide a bit of relief. No, no. Sorry, sorry,

0:46.9

sorry. That's for the Wednesday podcast, which I have to say, we have had a lot of positive

0:53.7

feedback for. I mean, people are a bit

0:56.6

desperate, frankly, for entertainment. Do you know, the highlight, though, is the bit where you kept

1:02.0

saying, hello, hello? Did you go back and listen to that? I did. I did go back and listen to it.

1:07.2

It was funny. And then at the very end, I went, oh, fuck. Quite quietly. I thought I did

1:12.3

quite well not to swear for Sony. I thought, because I was kind of mentally urging you to swear.

1:20.5

Oh, God. So, yes, so we'll try and make this a little bit more serious than Wednesday's

1:26.9

one. I thought we provided some good political analysis, certainly in the first half, maybe not the second. And we didn't go, we have decided that we're going to rein ourselves in on the smut front. We're not going to completely be letting ourselves down anymore, are we? That's the point. She says having nearly let herself down in the first 10 seconds of the podcast.

1:49.8

Now listen, I thought we might not be able to record this podcast today because I thought you might be making a re-entry.

1:53.7

Yes.

1:56.8

Well, the thing is, oh, yes, Mrs.

1:59.1

No, Mrs.

2:00.0

Oh, no.

2:06.5

No, no. No, no. No, no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No, of course, referring to to those who are not strictly officinados like you now are. No, I'm not. I don't watch it anymore.

2:11.4

Apart from I record it and then watch Rambia. Yes, bless her. So, what has happened this week, of course, is that COVID has struck

2:19.6

again in the strictly world, because let's not forget right at the very beginning, Harvey was

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