35. The Prime Ministers’ World Cup

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Who is the greatest British Prime Minister of them all? The bookmakers have Winston Churchill favourite to lift the crown, but William Gladstone and Maggie Thatcher won’t give up the fight without a struggle. And who’s this coming up quietly on the left-hand rail? Why, it’s Clement Attlee, who looks a real threat to the horses on his right. Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland debate the runners and riders in our inaugural Rest is History World Cup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's my first match of it.
0:01.4	Bit of dancing.
0:02.6	No pressure.
0:03.8	Just start moving your hips.
0:05.6	Oh, sorry.
0:06.8	Sorry.
0:07.8	My bad.
0:09.2	Turns out I've got two left feet.
0:11.3	And that's how Ellie fell head over heels for Jack.
0:14.8	Maybe I could make that four left feet.
0:18.1	Actually, my hamstrings feeling kind of tight.
0:21.1	Maybe a drink instead?
0:22.7	Go on then.
0:24.4	LAUGHTER
0:25.6	Start something real at match events.
0:28.4	Download match.
0:42.4	Well, what a week it has been.
0:44.5	What a tournament.
0:45.9	And I thought to turn inevitably to the retrospective
0:49.4	after a feast of Prime Ministerial sport.
0:52.3	It has, of course, been the rest is history.
0:55.7	Prime Ministerial World Cup and Tom Holland and I, Tom and Xambrick,
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