Boris Johnson: Parties and Rules
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson totters precariously because of the parties in Number 10… even though he himself has never been a great party lover. Why did he not think through those famous consequences? Did he not consider what would happen if the gatherings were leaked? Plus brilliant questions from all parts of the UK, Germany, Poland, Brussels and beyond.
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Written and presented by Steve Richards. Recorded at Podmasters Studios, Highbury, London. Audio production by Alex Rees.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me, Steve Richards. The Weekly |
| 0:26.6 | podcast, thank you for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and around the world. And later on, |
| 0:32.7 | we will have questions from all over the place, Europe, the UK, of course, and brilliant questions too. |
| 0:40.5 | I will be reflecting if it's okay with all of you on the latest phase of this epic drama. |
| 0:48.2 | Who would have thought last week when, if you remember, I was kind of analysing Ke Starrma's New Year's speech, as if it was a |
| 0:56.1 | kind of bit of Shakespeare literature, forensically analyzing the opening paragraphs. Who would |
| 1:02.3 | have thought that party gate would have erupted again in quite the way it has? Well, actually, |
| 1:09.2 | probably quite a lot of a sense that this wasn't over. |
| 1:12.8 | Anyway, I'll be giving my take on it for the first time because it hadn't happened last week. |
| 1:18.7 | Then we'll come to your questions. Before that, a couple of notices. Oh, yeah. Do any of you get the |
| 1:24.3 | Radio Times? I don't, to be honest, although actually I know people who do. |
| 1:28.4 | It's quite good, I think. Someone very kindly tweeted it was the Radio Times podcast selection last |
| 1:34.3 | week, rock and roll politics. And they said some nice things about it. They said something very |
| 1:37.9 | funny and incidentally untrue. In the review of it, they said, oh yeah, the kind of people listening, we all get worked up |
| 1:46.0 | about what Jim Callahan should have done in 1978. Now, that's quite funny, but not true. I've never |
| 1:53.2 | raised the question of what Jim Callahan should have done in 1978. But the more I think about it, |
| 1:59.8 | it's quite a good question. Should he have called that early |
| 2:03.4 | election? You know, the later echoes with Gordon Brown? Yeah, I might well, Radio Times, |
| 2:09.9 | return to that question, and I know everyone listening will be thrilled. But actually, |
| 2:15.0 | what we do is focus on current dramas, but often put them in a kind of |
| 2:20.7 | context, you know, because nothing happens by chance in politics and there are always deep roots. |
| 2:26.9 | But yeah, Radio Times readers will think, wow, to find out what Callahan should have done in 78, |
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