BONUS: Leader of the Opposition - Episode 6

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Last year, to mark 300 years since Robert Walpole became Prime Minister, Matt Chorley learnt about every PM through history each week. This year, he's learning about each Leader of the Opposition with Nigel Fletcher from the Centre for Opposition Studies. Each month you'll find a collection of episodes on the podcast.

This month its Sir Edward Carson, William Adamson, Sir Donald Maclean and Arthur Henderson.

Listen live to the next Leader of the Opposition every Monday morning from 10am on Times Radio.

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0:56.3	And we kick off this month with Sir Edward Carson, who became Concertive Leader in 1915.
1:06.3	Leader of the bank.
1:08.3	Hello from the other side.
1:12.3	I'm a loser baby.
1:15.3	They can only get better.
1:20.3	And I stood up and said it's gonna be me.
1:24.3	We've got Sir Edward Carson, who is the first of the leaders on our list who have taken
1:29.9	the job after what we were talking about a couple of weeks ago, the 1911 Parliament Act,
1:34.6	which is what curved the power of the lords and so from here on the commons is the pre-eminent
1:38.4	House.
1:39.4	And he was leaded to the opposition for just over a year between October 1915 and December
1:45.9	of the following year, 1916.
1:47.9	And that was a course during the First World War.
1:50.0	So it was rather unusual circumstances.
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