440. Short but Sweet

Where Politics Meets History

Global

News, History, Politics

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith rejoice in the afterglow of their Dublin show as they discuss the week’s news, including the possibility of Johnny Mercer being jailed, the failures of Michael Gove as Housing Secretary, the pensions triple lock. The England football shirt and the NHS British Social Attitudes Survey. Smut quota: Zero

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:18.4	In Dublin's Fair City where the boys are so pretty, I first set my eyes on, sweet Michael Malone.
0:29.1	You did such a good job, Ian Dale, in not doing the accent or embarrassing us in our rather fabulous weekend in Dublin and are brilliant for the many
0:41.7	life. It was the best weekend ever, as young people would say. No, I had such a good time
0:49.2	and I know you did. It was just, it couldn't have gone better. We had a full house.
0:57.3	Pascal Donahue who was a brilliant, brilliant guest.
1:05.0	And for those of you who sometimes tell me that you don't really listen to the live ones because it's a different vibe, you should have a listen to this one.
1:08.2	Because all the feedback I've had so far has been incredibly positive.
1:10.8	They were a brilliant audience from all over the place,
1:17.6	from obviously a lot from Dublin, but people had flown in from Britain and also from Northern Ireland.
1:22.0	So it was just one of those evenings where you think it could not have gone better.
1:28.5	I mean, not wanting to set the hurdle too high, I was just very delighted that he turned up at all.
1:34.5	Given the week, which in many ways were sort of totally brilliant for us, wasn't it? In which the T-shirt resigned and then Fienegel elected their new leader.
1:42.6	And he came literally from the press conference where they'd been, where
1:47.7	Simon Harris had been doing his first speech. And so that was the sort of really interesting
1:51.9	context. I think that might have got us a few more members of the audience as well, but it also
1:57.0	gave us something, something to talk about. Do you think if people listen to the podcast i i
2:04.5	wasn't i thought he was really good and really straight but when he said that thing about he was
2:09.5	never going to regret not standing to be leader i thought i'm not i'm not quite sure i believe you
2:13.2	about that no i didn't either but uh he was so because i said in last week's podcast that I'd never met him, well, it apparently
2:21.3	I was wrong, because he reminded me of all the times we met over the Politico's counter where he would...
2:26.3	You are awful.
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