EMERGENCY POD: "A shambles, and a disgrace"
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
After Home Secretary Suella Braverman resigned, the Prime Minister appointed one of her fiercest critics, Grant Shapps, to the post. Her Conservative project seems dead in the water, and after tonight’s chaos, Lewis and Jon discuss in this emergency episode whether the final nail has been drilled into the coffin of Liz Truss’ government.
Production: Ellie Clifford & Gabriel Radus
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | We've spoken over the past few days about the chaos and the dysfunction in the government. |
| 0:15.3 | Tonight, there was an unbelievable physical manifestation of that chaos, |
| 0:22.6 | with rouse and squabbles and almost fights breaking out. |
| 0:27.5 | Listen to this Conservative MP. |
| 0:30.3 | He's been a backbencher for 17 years, Charles Walker, |
| 0:33.7 | almost in tears in his state of rage and fury. |
| 0:38.9 | I think it's a shambles and a disgrace. I think it is utterly appalling. I really shouldn't |
| 0:44.2 | say this, but I hope all those people that put Liz Truss in number 10, I hope it was worth it. |
| 0:49.7 | What we've heard tonight is allegations of physical manhandling in the lobbies of the House of Commons. |
| 0:55.8 | And you know what, John, I really hate. I think there's been a thing in like in our trade, |
| 1:00.8 | in political journalism over the last few years that there's been this sort of like motif that I |
| 1:06.7 | really hate this kind of, oh my God, this is crazy. This is mental. This is mad. It's every day is crazy. And I really hate this kind of, oh my God, this is crazy. This is mental. |
| 1:11.1 | This is mad. |
| 1:12.5 | It's every day is crazy. |
| 1:14.3 | And I really hate it because I often think like in our job, it shouldn't be our job to just sit there sounding and looking stunned. |
| 1:21.6 | But you know what? |
| 1:22.4 | I looked at this tonight and this is mad. |
| 1:25.1 | This really is mental. |
| 1:26.7 | This is basically the disintegration of a government and a prime minister's authority before our eyes. |
| 1:34.8 | And when they cannot and the PM cannot in any way corral or exert whole authority over our MPs, and this is the net result of what we see, |
| 1:47.0 | then this really is disintegration and it does no one in the country at all any good. |
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