79. Nadhim Zahawi: Iraq, Conservatism, and why he backed Boris Johnson

Leading

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Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What does the former Chancellor make of the current Conservative election campaign? What was his experience escaping Saddam Hussein's Iraq? And does he stand by his support of Boris Johnson and Brexit? Nadhim Zahawi joins Rory and Alastair to answer all these questions and more on today's episode of Leading. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. TRIP LIVE TOUR: To buy tickets for our October Tour, just head to www.therestispolitics.com Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Podcast Editor: James Hodgson Video Editor: Teo Ayodeji-Ansell Social Producer: Jess Kidson Assistant Producer: Fiona Douglas Producer: Nicole Maslen Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.0	Welcome to the rest of his politics with me Rory Stewart and me,
0:52.0	Annister Campbell. and today we have with us
0:55.4	Nadim Zahawi. Nadim is a friend of mine who joined politics with me in 2010.
1:02.1	We rebelled together on votes in the House Lords and found ourselves left on the backbenches together.
1:08.0	We travelled together to Iraq after ISIS had taken over and created this caliphate stretching across the Iraqi
1:17.5	Syria border as many envoys for David Cameron and we went and met the Iraqi government and the Kurdish government at the time and we've remained
1:25.4	in touch a great deal since.
1:27.0	He is somebody with extraordinary backstory, it's actually been a theme for a loss of the politicians.
1:33.0	I feel actually increasingly sorry for politicians, some of whom, you know, like me have pretty boring middle class backgrounds
1:38.8	because the world now is just dominated by people with extraordinary stories. But his life takes us from a childhood in Iraq,
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