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Politics Unpacked

Brexit, Boris and blackface

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Matt Chorley is joined at the Tory conference by Daniel Finkelstein, Alice Thomson and Hugo Rifkind.

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0:00.0

A history where women are missing isn't a history at all.

0:03.6

I'm Philippa Gregory and I'll take you through nine centuries

0:07.3

to find women whose stories were not recorded

0:10.0

as they were just normal women.

0:12.1

My brave lads of Molden, I will be your leader, for we will not starve.

0:17.0

And I'll reflect on their lives with women from today.

0:20.0

There's something about a woman protesting, which is deeply uncomfortable.

0:25.8

Find normal women, wherever you get your podcast. Hello and Well to the Red Box Politics Podcast and The Times, I'm Matt Jolly.

0:39.8

This is a special recorded at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.

0:44.0

The light is to be joined by Alice Thompson, Hugo Rifkin and this is Daniel Finkelstein.

0:48.7

In the next three weeks the Prime Minister of Great Britain could end up resigning, could

0:52.2

end up defying the law and taking to the courts,

0:54.8

couldn't end up extending when he said he would die in a ditch.

0:57.6

But what really matters politically is whether any of these actions land as an act of

1:02.4

strength or an act of weakness and

1:04.4

incompetence and upon that much of the success of the Prime Minister and of the Conservative

1:09.0

Party rest.

1:10.0

So Danny, which of those you think is the most likely, or does it matter less which happens, and more how he handles it?

1:17.0

What matters most is whether what he does seems to people as the act of a strong Prime Minister who's in control of the

1:24.6

situation because the truth is in all those three options he isn't really in

1:28.1

control he isn't in control of the courts he isn't in control of the parliamentary

1:32.0

majority and if he resigns he isn't in control of the parliamentary majority and if he resigns he wouldn't even

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