Big fish in a small reshuffle
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Matt Chorley is joined by James Starkie, a former special adviser to Priti Patel, Dominic Raab and Michael Gove, who explains what is like inside government in reshuffle week.
Plus Kieran Andrews, The Times Scottish political editor, on who might be Sturgeon's successor, and Esther Webber, Red Box reporter, on John Bercow not getting a peerage, which isn't funny at all.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and one of the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times, I'm Matt Jolly. |
| 0:07.1 | This week we're discussing reshuffles, Scotland and whether or not John Burco is going to |
| 0:11.6 | get his seat in the House of Lords. |
| 0:13.2 | Spoila, no he isn't. |
| 0:14.8 | But we'll come on to that shortly. |
| 0:16.2 | A couple of things we're going to tell you about first. |
| 0:18.8 | The Times is running a series of master classes via Times Plus. The first is called Making a Top Charting |
| 0:26.0 | podcast. Maybe I should go along to this. Richard Herring is running it over the |
| 0:30.1 | weekend in February the 29th to March the 1st. |
| 0:32.7 | If you want to get tickets to it, go to my times plus |
| 0:35.2 | dot code at UK to book your place |
| 0:37.4 | and you may find me and producer Alex sitting |
| 0:40.1 | in the audience taking notes. |
| 0:41.3 | I'd also like to say a special hello to Becky in the audience taking notes. I'd also like to say a special to Becky in the Emirates who |
| 0:45.0 | posted a review on iTunes saying, without a weekly dose of match |
| 0:49.2 | Julian friends I would feel every inch of the 4,154 miles that lie between my decade-long home in |
| 0:54.6 | Abbey and the Westminster bubble. The final bong of Brexit happened to mark my |
| 0:59.3 | 10-year anniversary as an expat so and she thought that was a momentous enough occasion to want making a first ever |
| 1:05.3 | podcast review. |
| 1:06.7 | I won't go on to repeat the nice thing she said about us, but if you want to post a review on iTunes, |
| 1:11.3 | it would actually help us up slightly up the charts, which would mean that we didn't need to go to the Richard everything. |
| 1:15.6 | So please do that on iTunes if you can. |
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