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🗓️ 9 August 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Helen and Stephen discuss Boris Johnson's Telegraph column about the burqa, talk to Frances Crook of the Howard League about prisons and penal reform, and answer a listener question: how radical is Jeremy Corbyn's programme for government?
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1:06.0 | about Boris Johnson and the burka we ask how radical is Jeremy Corbyn's agenda and |
1:11.0 | I talked to Francis Crook of the Howard League about prisons policy and a new series of things that are not Brexit. |
1:16.0 | Stephen, do we have to talk about Brexit? |
1:24.0 | No, instead, I think we should talk about the Father, Godfather, Midwife. |
1:30.0 | Ugh, of Brexit. |
1:31.0 | The Dr Frankenstein of our leave vote. |
1:34.0 | Very nicely done. |
1:35.1 | Doctor, not the monster. |
1:36.6 | Well, arguably the doctor. |
1:38.9 | And the monster of Brexit. |
1:40.9 | Yeah. |
1:41.9 | Boris Johnson. |
1:42.3 | So this isn't his debut column since his return to the Telegraph, which is another issue than I have |
1:49.2 | a number of feelings about. |
1:50.5 | Right, because that should have gone through presumably a cabinet committee to say that it was okay for him to do that |
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