Boris scrapes through and Africa's grain crisis – The Week in 60 Minutes
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🗓️ 12 June 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
‘Why on earth would he want to carry on and have more of this humiliation? Why wouldn’t want to take the dignified path of saying: “I’m going to fall on my sword.”'
On the rest of the show, Spectator contributor Owen Matthews and our Wild Life columnist Aidan Hartley discuss how far Putin is to blame for global food shortages, the Refugee Council’s Enver Solomon says the Home Office is in crisis, and sports journalist Neil Clark explains why, despite the danger, the Isle of Man TT should be celebrated, not banned.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes. I'm John Connolly, the Spectators News Editor. |
| 0:16.4 | Coming up today. Boris Johnson managed to survive a confidence vote this week. |
| 0:21.5 | He should technically be safe for another year, but James Forsyth says the plots against him |
| 0:25.0 | are going to keep coming. |
| 0:26.9 | James will discuss the PM's fate with Sir Anthony Selden. |
| 0:30.9 | Owen Matthews writes in this week's magazine that Vladimir Putin is weaponising starvation |
| 0:34.6 | in Ukraine. |
| 0:35.6 | Aidan Hartley, meanwhile, says that bad governance is to blame |
| 0:38.1 | for grain soldiers in Africa. They're both joined to discuss the Russian grain blockade. |
| 0:43.4 | A new migrant accommodation is being built in Stafford, where I live. But is it a good idea to house |
| 0:49.0 | 500 asylum seekers on the outskirts of a small West Midlands town. I'll speak to Enver Solomon. |
| 0:55.3 | You may have seen a poll last week saying that Swedish people were the least likely in |
| 0:59.3 | Europe to offer food to guests who come to visit. But are the Swedes being unfairly maligned? |
| 1:04.6 | Lisa Burewild will be on the show to defend Swedish hospitality. And finally, sports |
| 1:09.8 | journalist Neil Clark writes in this week's magazine |
| 1:11.8 | about the danger and glory of the Isle of Man TT. He'll join the show. Before we get going, |
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