Boris Johnson Vs. The Covid-19 Inquiry

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It’s a new week and Boris Johnson will finally be held to account for his leadership during the pandemic at the Covid-19 Inquiry this week. Steve Richards imagines how different and more effective the response would have been if Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling were in charge. Would they have handled it as well as they did the financial crash? All this plus reflections on Glenys Kinnock, Keir Starmer and Margaret Thatcher, the demise of Newsnight and the BBC and brilliant questions from the Rock & Roll co-operative. 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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards. Thanks for tuning in.
0:17.4	There's a lot happening and a lot of great people dying and somehow or other if it's
0:25.0	okay with all of you I'm going to combine the two themes the sad deaths of Alistair
0:34.1	Darling and Glenys Kinneck two people who I knew in politics and to some extent
0:39.7	outside politics, and link that with some of the many things whirling around at the moment.
0:49.1	So my opening reflections, again, if it's okay with all of you, will encompass quite a few things.
0:55.5	Boris Johnson appearing in front of the COVID inquiry.
0:59.6	Neil Kinnock and Glenys Kinnock and the potency of that duo.
1:05.1	Then moving on to the current Labour leader Kier St, and his comments about Margaret Thatcher in his Sunday
1:12.4	Telegraph article and why they worry me, but why his interview he gave simultaneously with the
1:20.3	publication of that article on Radio 4's Broadcasting House was much better. Then on to briefly the BBC and the axing of Newsnight in its current form
1:34.4	to an altogether different form. Then we return, return, go to, because we haven't heard them yet.
1:41.7	Your brilliant questions on all kinds of varying themes, all of them brilliant.
1:49.2	And before that, a few notices. First of all, thank you for those of you who have emailed,
1:57.9	asking me for a signed label and dedication for my latest book, Turning Points, Crisis and
2:05.5	Change in Modern Britain from 1945 to Liz Truss in The Times, Books of the Year. Yeah, I've had
2:14.3	loads and I'm going to get going with them this week. So those of you who've asked with some very nice emails about the podcast and the book and so on, I really appreciate it.
2:24.5	And for those of you who want to buy it as a Christmas present, please do email me, Steve Rick 14 at iCloud.com.
2:32.3	Tell me who you're buying it for and what message you want me to give them.
2:38.3	I'll do that on a label, post the label back to you.
2:42.1	And the turning points, if you haven't got the book, are 1945, the Suez Crisis,
2:49.3	the 1967 Abortion Act and what Roy Jenkins called the creation of a civilized
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