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Where Politics Meets History

389. Emergency Pod – A Quitter Not a Fighter

Where Politics Meets History

Global

News, History, Politics

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith react to the news that Boris Johnson is to quit Parliament with immediate effect, following on from Nadine Dorries announcing the self same thing. They start the recording just as Tory MP Nigel Adams became the third Tory MP to cause a by-election. They also discuss Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list and the criminal indictment of Donald Trump.

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0:00.0

This is a Global Player Original podcast.

0:03.0

I feel as if we should have sort of some sort of clanging thing to announce an emergency podcast. Apparently the news

0:23.0

agents have already done one. The rest is politics have already done one, but we're going

0:27.2

to be fully up to date with the news, aren't we? Why do we need to start by mentioning them?

0:33.6

Because I knew it would annoy you. Yeah, well it has has done so i think i've just changed my mind

0:38.7

and let's not bother doing one okay bye see yeah i've got back to my sunny saturday mind you after

0:46.3

what you did to me this morning pardon me oh yes oh yes yeah yeah, that just shows how keen I was. I ran at, I don't think

0:58.3

most people would think half-past six on a Saturday for somebody, sorry, half-p-past eight on a

1:04.3

Saturday, half-past-eight on a Saturday, for somebody who is an adult and not a teenager,

1:09.7

it would be that early.

1:11.7

But as I was ringing you on my way to volunteer at Park Run this morning,

1:16.6

I did suddenly think to myself, ah, he's still asleep, isn't he?

1:21.1

And then when you picked it up and you went, uh, and I said,

1:25.3

oh, sorry to, sorry to ring you so early I expect you're still asleep aren't you and you went

1:29.6

who's this does my name not come up on your phone or what well it does but I'd left it ringing

1:38.1

quite a long time and I thought if I don't that fucker goes away if I don't answer it it will then

1:43.0

ring off so I didn't actually look to see who it was.

1:46.0

And I thought it was a child ringing.

1:47.9

I didn't recognise your voice.

1:51.7

Full of childlike Saturday morning enthusiasm.

1:54.5

Yes.

1:55.0

So you suggested an emergency podcast, and I said, well, Corey has gone on holiday.

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