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Politics Unpacked

Could a sex strike solve Brexit?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

Politics, News & Politics, News

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Janice Turner on sexual political protest, Rachel Sylvester on Tory divisions on climate change and Francis Elliott on the rise of the Brexit Party.

All while Matt Chorley is stuck on a train.


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0:00.0

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0:45.0

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1:06.0

Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times. I'm Ma' Chorley stuck on a train, unable to get into the studio to record this week's

1:11.5

podcast, the first time this has happened.

1:13.0

It's three and a half years and more than 200 episodes.

1:17.0

Waiting in the studio to discuss what's happening in British politics,

1:21.0

Rachel Sylvester Times columnist, on how climate change is

1:24.6

causing divisions in the Conservative Party as deep as Brexit, making a podcast debut

1:30.6

the brilliant Janice Turner on where the sex strikes can ever work.

1:34.4

Plus, times political leaders are Francis Elliot on the newish political kids on the block.

1:39.4

I don't know what they're going to say either, so let's sit back and listen to it together.

1:45.2

The Brexit Party has not produced a manifesto ahead of the European Parliament elections, but

1:49.4

says it will publish one afterwards.

1:52.1

Is that breathtaking cynicism or strategic brilliant? It's

1:55.6

both surely. I mean this is quite extraordinary. I can't remember the last time a political party fought an election

2:05.9

with failing to have any sort of prospectus about what it would do.

2:11.6

And this is what Farage actually said when he was challenged about this.

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