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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | Page 94, the Private Eye podcast. |
0:03.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94. |
0:05.3 | My name is Andrew Hunter Murray, and this week I am joined by Adam McQueen and Helen Lewis, |
0:09.9 | as always, for our look at the weeks news since the magazine last came out. |
0:14.1 | Also, later on, we're going to be talking to Richard Brooks, |
0:17.2 | longtime veteran of the podcast, who will be talking about various hangovers of PPE after COVID. |
0:23.2 | Not that COVID is over. Anyway, more cheery news to start off with. |
0:27.1 | So, one of the big stories that's broken since the last issue of the eye was published |
0:31.8 | is that Nadine Dorries, MP for Midbed Future, |
0:35.0 | previously Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has resigned. |
0:38.8 | And the exciting thing is that this is a really huge resignation, because it's such a long |
0:45.6 | resignation, because it started two months ago when she said her resigning. |
0:49.3 | I was going to say, you're stretching the definition of breaking news here, |
0:52.4 | aren't you? This was breaking news in June, and has been ever since. |
0:55.7 | Which hasn't actually gone yet. We're recording this on Tuesday morning, |
0:58.0 | and she hasn't yet got her letter in applying for the Chilton hundreds, I don't think. |
1:01.9 | So, anything could happen. This can't be a secondary bluff. |
1:04.3 | This can't be. Can it go on forever? She'll be the MP for Midbed Future in perpetuity and for life. |
1:10.3 | I think what's finally driven her out is the fact that I described her in the magazine this week, |
1:13.4 | because quasi-MP, Nadine Dorries. It must be. That was shame, though. |
1:17.8 | So, it's a very interesting story, because basically, Dorries has been trying to |
1:22.7 | resign with, to cause maximum discomfort to the Prime Minister, because she's Boris Forever, |
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