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The Rest Is Politics

35. Al-Qaeda, Pelosi in Taiwan, and working for Truss

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

News, Politics, Government

4.511.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Join Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart as they discuss al-Qaeda, Kosovo, Kenya, Tunisia, the 'age of impunity', Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit, working for Truss and Sunak, terrorism, and resignation honours. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Show notes: The Holocaust: A New History - Laurence Rees Boris Johnson is planning to fill the Lords with his cronies and legitimise bribery - Gordon Brown (The Guardian) Which prime minister is being described here? - Robert Saunders (Twitter) Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the rest of politics, with me, Rory Stewart, and me, Alistair Campbell.

0:14.9

And I think you wanted to start us today, which is refreshing, get us off the leadership

0:19.3

a bit, talk a little bit about some international stuff, what's been on your mind.

0:22.6

Well, I'll tell you, we'll obviously come to the whole Truss-Soonak situation, especially

0:27.5

after Truss' extraordinary insult of Nicola Sturgeon last night, which I thought was remarkable.

0:34.4

But there are three things going on in the world, which I am just gobsmacked by how little

0:40.3

attention there is in the UK media.

0:44.0

The first is what's going on in Kosovo.

0:45.6

Now, there was a time in my life, working with Tony Blair when Kosovo was the sink, most

0:50.0

important thing that we were involved in, when we were taking on Milosevic, and you have

0:54.5

a situation right now where, in northern Kosovo, Serbs who are blockading, they've set

1:03.0

up roadblocks to stop traffic coming in out and to disrupt trade.

1:07.4

And this is all because the Kosovo government wants them to change their number plates and

1:12.6

also their identification papers, because there are about 50,000 Kosovoans Serbs who refuse

1:18.2

to recognise that they are actually Kosovoans.

1:21.8

And you've now got a situation where NATO, the Kosovo force of NATO, is saying that

1:26.8

they have a watching brief and they're prepared to intervene if the stability continues.

1:31.8

And the government has had to postpone the measure for a month.

1:37.2

But I guess the point I'm making, we have in this leadership election, the foreign secretary,

1:43.4

and yet we have a foreign secretary who strikes me, this goes back to a point you've made

1:47.0

before, just seems to us no interest in foreign policy whatsoever.

1:51.1

The second situation is Kenya, an election in Kenya in a few days' time.

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