Elections, Home Secretaries & Willies…
Where Politics Meets History
Global
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🗓️ 6 May 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Ian. |
| 0:03.6 | Oh, you're sounding quite perky. |
| 0:05.7 | You must have had some sleep since we spent the night together. |
| 0:09.7 | I've had a little bit. |
| 0:10.5 | But you know, on Friday night, I did my normal show on Friday afternoon after a marathon six-hour overnighter. |
| 0:17.4 | And then I did news night. |
| 0:19.0 | And then I drove to Norfolk, believe it or not. You drove yourself to Norfolk? Well, no, then I drove to Norfolk believe it or not you drove yourself to |
| 0:22.9 | Norfolk well no I was driven to Norfolk good my partner met me um service station on the M11 |
| 0:29.7 | sounds deeply how romantic and anyway it turned out that on a bank holiday Friday, they closed the M11, can you believe? |
| 0:40.2 | I mean, what planet does the highways agency behave like that? |
| 0:43.6 | And then they closed the A11 turnoff of the A14, effectively cutting Norfolk off, |
| 0:49.6 | which a lot of people in Norfolk would be quite appreciative of, I think. |
| 0:53.1 | But it took, we got into the house at |
| 0:56.8 | around 3am. So I got six hours sleep then and had a good kit last night. So I'm nearly recovering |
| 1:06.6 | my sleep. Well, we're all pleased to hear that. And I did see your very grumpy tweet and the |
| 1:10.5 | highways agency needs to do better. There is something about bank holidays because I've got to go |
| 1:16.4 | off to the airport today because I'm going to Jordan. And I mean, I do usually drive, but the train |
| 1:22.7 | is, I think, completely sort of cancelled into London today. So, you know, West Midlands cut off. |
| 1:30.6 | I've got to, I don't normally work on a bank holiday, but CNN don't really recognise |
| 1:35.6 | bank holidays because it's obviously an international thing. So I've got to do CNN tomorrow |
| 1:40.3 | lunchtime, so I thought, well, I might as well do my normal LBC show as well, so I'm doing that too. But I bet all the trains |
| 1:45.6 | are cancelled, and I don't actually |
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