Farewell Damian Green and 2017 political roundup

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🗓️ 22 December 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Was Theresa May’s de facto deputy right to resign? And who will replace him? Plus. a review of the political year for the Conservatives, Labour, Brexit and the British economy. With George Parker, Robert Shrimsley. Chris Giles and Gemma Tetlow of the Financial Times, plus political strategist John McTernan. Presented by Sebastian Payne. Produced by Madison Darbyshire.

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0:00.0	Welcome to F.T. Politics, the Financial Times's podcast on British politics.
0:09.0	I'm Sebastian Payne and in our final episode of 2017 we'll be discussing the
0:14.6	Damian Green saga and reviewing the year for the Conservatives,
0:18.0	Labour and the British economy.
0:19.8	I'm glad to be joined by our political editor
0:23.0	director Robert Shrimsley
0:25.2	Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard
0:27.2	Economics editor Chris Jules
0:29.1	Economics Correspondent Jamatetlo
0:31.2	plus former labor advisor John
0:33.0	McTurner. Thank you all for coming.
0:35.1	And it was all going so well for Theresa May. The budget went off without a hitch.
0:40.1	sufficient progress was being granted in the Brexit talks and then on Thursday
0:44.4	evening she had to force Damien Green her deputy to hand in his resignation not
0:49.2	over sexual harassment allegations but over lying in two statements about an incident with the police in 2008.
0:57.0	This pose a bigger question for the Prime Minister.
0:59.0	Is she going to reach her for her government?
1:01.0	And does she end 2017 on a good or bad year for the Conservative Party.
1:05.2	So George Parker let's begin with the Damon Green saga which has been very convoluted
1:10.4	and been going for a lot of time we were actually wondering was she going to
1:14.0	resolve it by the end of this year but late of 8.40 p.m. on Thursday evening there was
1:19.7	an exchange of letters between the cabinet office and Downing Street and
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