89. Where will we be in 2023?

The Rest Is Politics

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Join Alastair and Rory for a bonus episode as they discuss their political predictions for 2023! Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, enjoy ad-free listening, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So welcome to another episode of the REST His Politics with me, Alistair Campbell.
0:12.2	And with me, Rory Stewart, and it's a bit of a short sort of holiday season episode,
0:15.9	isn't it?
0:16.9	Yeah, we're just going to briefly look forward to next year.
0:19.2	And take a few Q&As, so let me start with a question for you.
0:21.8	It's a very bad question for you, Toby Smith.
0:25.1	Would Alistair rather see a Burnley promotion or a Labour government next year?
0:29.6	Labour government.
0:30.6	Very good.
0:31.6	Thank you.
0:32.6	Here's one more serious, David McFarlane.
0:34.6	How do you predict the war in Ukraine will end and will it happen in 2023?
0:38.9	I think it's going to be very sadly difficult for it to end in 2023.
0:43.5	The best chance now of it ending is paradoxically to follow Biden not macro.
0:50.8	This is not going to be solved through trying to find some understanding or compromise with
0:55.7	Putin.
0:56.7	I'm afraid that the best hope now is to keep strong support up to the Ukrainians and to
1:04.4	get Putin into a situation where he has to withdraw.
1:07.2	And it's going to be very dangerous though, because at the same time as I'm saying that
1:10.9	I'm very conscious that it's a nuclear power.
1:13.7	It's got enormous reserves and he will not want to be humiliated, but I cannot see a root
1:20.7	to anything other than lasting stalemate unless people get on with it.
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