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Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Cummings up: A resignation? | Grant Shapps & Steve Baker

Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Sky News

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2157 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Sophy challenges Transport Secretary Grant Shapps on whether Dominic Cummings broke the lockdown rules he helped devise. Steve Baker becomes the first Conservative backbencher to call for Mr Cummings to resign.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.

0:03.5

How can we make sense of it all?

0:04.9

I'm Richard Engel.

0:05.7

And I'm Yalda Hekeem.

0:06.7

And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.

0:10.9

And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.

0:14.7

Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events

0:18.6

and explain to you why what happens out there

0:22.4

matters to you wherever you are. Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim,

0:28.2

wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to the Safeway Vision Sunday podcast. After it

0:34.3

emerged, the Prime Minister's most senior advisor travelled over 250 miles while

0:38.5

having coronavirus. We asked the Transport Secretary if it's one rule for people in government

0:42.7

and another rule for everyone else. Plus, Steve Baker became the first Conservative MP to call

0:48.5

for Mr Cummings to resign. Well, as usual on this podcast, we're joined by Matthew Lavender.

1:02.7

Hello, you're right?

1:03.8

I am.

1:04.5

I'm good, thank you.

1:05.1

Welcome back from your holiday.

1:06.6

Thanks.

1:07.0

I was off last week.

1:07.9

So Matt was working with the wonderful Neil Patterson. Yeah, who did a sterling job in your absence while you were sunning yourself, well, I was off last week, so Matt was working with the wonderful Neil Patterson.

1:11.6

Yeah, who did a sterling job in your absence while you were sunning yourself, well, I guess, in the garden and the park.

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