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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Are we heading for an early election?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6825 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

After the resignation of Robert Jenrick, plus Suella Braverman's opposition to his new Rwanda legislation, can Rishi Sunak govern any more? If not, will he call an early election next year? Steve Richards assesses another Westminster drama with a special bonus podcast. Support Rock & Roll Politics on Patreon and get exclusive benefits including bonus episodes and exclusive merchandise only available to subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Tickets for Rock & Roll Politics Live: Kings Place London on Dec 18th. Get Steve Richards’ book Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain from 1945 to Truss here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello. Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards. Thank you for tuning in wherever you are around the country and the world.

0:51.6

Now I pledged a second podcast earlier in the week and of course I stick to my pledges and I

0:57.7

also said so I'm not going to completely stick to the pledge that it would be partly the

1:02.4

space to read out some more of your brilliant questions because they've been pouring in

1:08.2

and I didn't have time to get to that many earlier in the week with so many things whirling around.

1:13.6

But there is the second podcast, but it's going to be quite short and there's so much going on.

1:19.6

I just thought I'd offer you a few reflections and then we'll get together early next week with more time for questions, including some of those I didn't

1:30.2

have time to read out on Monday, stroke Tuesday, whenever you get the podcast, depending

1:36.4

whether you're on the Patreon version or the other regular version. So yeah, let's go straight

1:43.4

into it. Now, the other twist in my pledge was I thought

1:47.2

I would be reflecting on Johnson and the COVID inquiry, and I will reflect a bit on that because in its

1:55.4

own way, it was extraordinarily compelling, almost as a piece of theatre, but of course with significance.

2:04.3

But before that, we've had more Tory internal dramas. The resignation of the immigration

2:12.7

minister as their latest attempt to deal with Rwanda, a bill that he would have been theoretically

2:18.4

navigating through the Commons, is another twist which has the same kind of contours

2:25.4

as some of the Brexit revolts under Theresa May. To the point where certainly at Westminster,

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