A new era of politics
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 160 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973
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| 0:35.4 | where we are embarking, I think, on a new era together, aren't we? |
| 0:39.5 | It's certainly fair to say that politics constitutes quite a large part of the conversations |
| 0:44.8 | that we have together. And in recent years, it's also been fair to say that we've managed |
| 0:49.3 | to carve out some space together in which truth could be spoken while much of the media seemed to be |
| 0:58.8 | well at best a little bit distracted and at worst completely deluded it's going to be fascinating to |
| 1:05.8 | see how the new political reality shakes down i I drive, derive some encouragement from the |
| 1:13.7 | attempts we made at optimism at previous incarnations of the last government. There were a few |
| 1:19.0 | hours, weren't there? After Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, where we felt that perhaps there |
| 1:24.1 | would be an improvement. He would put some clear blue water between himself and what had gone before. |
| 1:29.4 | But then, as we observed countless times, that disappeared the moment that he put Suella Braverman back in the home office. |
| 1:36.4 | And I would briefly remind you as well of the curse of O'Brien when we've looked for the positive or the good in some conservative politicians, only to have our hopes dashed to smithereens shortly afterwards, sometimes spectacularly, as in the case of Matt Hancock, and sometimes more of a sort of slow puncture, as in the case of James Cleverley. |
| 1:58.2 | I think that I was wrong on Friday. Let's start new era, new me. I think I was |
| 2:02.6 | wrong on Friday to suggest that Jeremy Hunt might change his mind. I've always thought that the |
| 2:08.6 | temptation to land the biggest job was almost overweening for almost every politician. And Jeremy Hunt, I'd have thought, would have been |
| 2:18.4 | quite well placed to mount a kind of unity leadership campaign. But it appears, as indeed |
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