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Where Politics Meets History

328. Mystic Iain Strikes Again

Where Politics Meets History

Global

Politics, History, News

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith discuss Boris Johnson’s victory in the vote of confidence, the Platinum Jubilee Weekend, Cost of Living Housing, the Northern Ireland Protocol, Iain’s interview with Sir Cliff Richard, Love Island and what it’s like to copresent with Andrew Marr. Smut quota: Middling to low. To book tickets for Iain and Jacqui’s Edinburgh Fringe shows visit https://www.pleasance.co.uk/via/search/edinburgh?query=iain%20dale

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0:00.0

So, Ian, I make up about 41, 42% of this podcast.

0:21.6

And I just want to say that I have no confidence in you whatsoever.

0:26.6

And you're not alone in that.

0:28.6

It feels as if it happened a month ago, doesn't it?

0:33.6

I mean, we're recording this on Friday afternoon.

0:35.6

The vote took place at 9pm on Monday night,

0:39.8

so only four days ago. And yet everyone's forgotten about it almost. It's as if the tactics

0:47.4

to get it over with quickly have succeeded and that the Prime Minister is being given the opportunity as he's wanted all along to

0:57.1

move on, move on, nothing to see here, no illegal parties, no lying to Parliament, no, no, let's just talk about

1:04.0

housing or something.

1:06.5

Basically, what you're saying is he wants to get on with the job. Which is what Theresa May did, isn't it?

1:12.5

That's what she always used to say.

1:13.7

It's what Gordon Brown always used to say.

1:15.6

It's all those two really successful prime ministers.

1:18.0

So he's following in good footsteps, isn't he?

1:21.3

It came, did it, so to speak, come quicker than you thought it was going to?

1:26.9

No, Mr. Ian struck again, because if

1:29.2

you remember on the podcast last week, I said that I thought they had the numbers and they would

1:33.7

be announced early in the week. I mean, I suppose I wasn't expecting it at 8 o'clock on the Monday

1:38.1

morning because I didn't actually realise that Parliament was back on Monday. I thought it was Tuesday.

1:43.0

So I was pretty sure that they

1:44.9

had the numbers, mainly because Graham Brady was spotted in the Commons last Wednesday when it was

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