Downing Street vs the Conservative party
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Number 10 found itself at odds with its own MPs this week, as its plan to install former minister Chris Grayling as chair of the intelligence committee backfired. With serious questions also raised about the investigation into home secretary Priti Patel, what does it tell us about Downing Street's state of mind and that of prime minister Boris Johnson? Plus we discuss the long-trailed decision to phase out Huawei from the UK’s 5G phone networks and whether the country risks mobile blackouts. Presented by Sebastian Payne, with George Parker, Robert Shrimsley, Helen Warrell and Nic Fildes. Produced by Josh de la Mare and Breen Turner.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. |
| 0:15.0 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
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| 0:29.0 | The Conservative Party is increasingly unhappy as Boris Johnson tried and failed to force |
| 0:39.4 | his man in as Chair of Parliament's powerful Intelligence and Security Committee. |
| 0:47.7 | Welcome to Payne's Politics, your essential insider guide to what happened and happening in British politics from the Financial Times, |
| 0:55.8 | with me Sebastian Payne. In this episode, we'll be exploring the extraordinary route over the |
| 1:01.3 | Intelligence Committee and Downing Street's problematic week, |
| 1:04.8 | including dealing with bullying issues regarding Home Secretary Priti Patel, with political editor |
| 1:09.7 | George Parker and political columnist Robert Shrimsley. And later, I'll be Paul works by the end of the decade with our defense editor Helen Worrell and |
| 1:23.9 | telecoms cost one Nick Fowd. So George and Robert lovely to speak to you again. |
| 1:28.0 | And you, sir. Hi there, sir. |
| 1:30.0 | Hi there, sir. |
| 1:32.0 | So the PM announced this week that masks are going to be compulsory from July the 24th. |
| 1:38.3 | It's still a bit of a messy policy. |
| 1:40.7 | It's unclear what we're supposed to do with masks in offices and I'm keen to |
| 1:44.4 | know have you both been wearing masks out and about if so where and what kind and |
| 1:49.1 | George we were in Parliament this week and I don't think I spotted you with a mask from |
| 1:53.6 | cycling in from West London. No, I think cycling in |
| 1:57.4 | West London in this weather wearing a mask would be a bit counterproductive. But |
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