A return to 'nasty' politics: Politics Weekly podcast
Politics Weekly UK
The Guardian
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🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:35.0 | Boris Johnson calls for politicians to be civil and kind to each other |
| 0:40.0 | as the rails continue over vaccines and universal credit. I'm Heather Stewart |
| 0:44.8 | political Edster of The Guardian and this is Politics Weekly. |
| 1:04.4 | Quite Quite a lot of Tory MPs know that cutting this money to people who desperately need it in the middle of a pandemic is the wrong thing to do. They know that. On Monday night six Tory MPs defied calls from the Prime Minister to |
| 1:08.4 | abstain and voted with Labour in an opposition day debate on the planned removal of a 20 pounds a week uplift in universal |
| 1:14.7 | credit for 6 million people. Boris Johnson called the vote a stunt and then through his |
| 1:19.2 | new press secretary asked for people in political debate to be nicer to each other. |
| 1:23.4 | With knotty political decisions still to come on who will get the vaccines when |
| 1:27.6 | and when and how to repair the public finances, are we leaving the pandemic |
| 1:31.3 | politics of constructive criticism and heading for nasty |
| 1:34.3 | waters? |
| 1:35.8 | In Scotland, the surprise resignation of the Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has injected |
| 1:40.0 | some energy into a party struggling to restore its fortunes among the electorate. |
| 1:44.0 | Plus looking ahead to Rishi Sunak's budget at the start of March, |
| 1:47.0 | I speak to experts about how he can help Boris Johnson with his plan to level up the UK. |
| 1:55.2 | That's all in this week's Politics Weekly. |
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