Ed Balls All at Sea
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Finding themselves on a week-long Times cruise from New York to Southampton, Matt Chorley talks to former cabinet minister Ed Balls about the chances of him returning to politics, his next big challenge and the risk of Keir Starmer becoming complacent in the same way Labour did ahead of the 1992 General Election.
Plus columnists Rachel Sylvester and David Aaronovitch ask whether union leader Mick Lynch has gone overboard in his latest round of media interviews, the motivation behind Priti Patel's new group calling for Tory party democracy, and whether Wes Streeting is the next leader of the Labour Party.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Chris Bryant. I've been MP for the Ronda for over 20 years and share of the standards |
| 0:05.7 | and privileges committees in the House of Commons for the past three years. And I've had |
| 0:10.8 | enough. I've had enough of politicians breaking the rules and expecting to get away with it. |
| 0:16.5 | In my new book Code of Conduct, I explore why this is possibly one of the worst parliaments |
| 0:21.0 | in history and how we can fix it. Code of Conduct is available now in eBook, audio and |
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| 1:30.1 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Surely. Thanks for all your lovely messages |
| 1:34.0 | about Joe Lyset yesterday. Today, a nice long chat with someone. No, he's not that |
| 1:38.9 | much like Joe Lyset. Ed Balls, former cabinet minister, to dance a turn, chef. What's he |
| 1:44.1 | going to do next? Really fascinating chat. I recorded with him on board. We were both |
| 1:48.1 | on the Times and Sunday Times, Cheltenham Literature Festival at sea. It was fine. We sailed |
| 1:53.4 | on the QM2 from New York to Southampton. You'll be able to hear about our chat on board |
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