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The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian, Ailbhe Rea and, for the final time, Patrick Maguire, sit down to discuss Boris Johnson's performance in the face of scrutiny from select committee chairs. Then, You Ask Us turns into You Ask Patrick, as he relives his finest moments at the New Statesman, including the juicy details of how he speared his white whale: Robert Kilroy-Silk.
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| 1:13.2 | colleague Stephen Bush, Anush-Chkeleon and Alville Ray to discuss Boris |
| 1:16.9 | Johnson's Apprenticeship the Liaison Committee and the past two years in |
| 1:20.0 | British politics. |
| 1:45.2 | So Boris Johnson was grilled, probably let's face it, for the first and last time in his premiership by the liaison committee yesterday, which kind of brought together the sort of two big stories of the week the big political row which is the ongoing fallout of the revelation that Dominic Cummings broke lockdown which he of course has now admitted and the rollout of the United Kingdom's test and trace |
| 1:50.2 | infrastructure to a greater or lesser |
| 1:53.0 | extent. |
| 1:54.0 | Appropriately, Patrick, for your sort of last ever podcast |
| 1:56.7 | with us if we go and join the Murdoch Empire. |
| 1:59.6 | It reminds me of one of your many Foggiish opinions which was the committee chairing has been made worse by clipball questions |
| 2:08.1 | Did you feel that this this session validated that view? |
| 2:13.0 | Sorry, I was just thinking about how unclippable a lot of the questions on the Brexit Select Committee with David Frost and Michael Gove, the other day were, or maybe they were too clippable, to give an example, |
| 2:27.2 | just not to be unfair and a new member of the 2019 down to take. |
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