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Fixing Britain’s crumbling schools and broken politics

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Nish and Coco reflect on a scandal they think is a perfect metaphor for Tory-led Britain. Schools have had to close because they’ve been built using cheap and unstable concrete (called RAAC), while there are also concerns over hospitals and other public buildings. So as the country crumbles around us, who’s to blame? Labour leader Keir Starmer has reshuffled his top team ahead of next year’s expected general election. Coco welcomes brand new Shadow Minister for Creative Industries and Digital, Chris Bryant, into the studio. He gives his reaction to his appointment and admits he’s a bit “discombobulated” after a whirlwind day. He reveals how reshuffles haven’t always gone well for him, and impresses Coco with his impression of Tony Blair. He also talks about his new book 'Code of Conduct', which seeks to provide a blueprint to make Westminster politics work better.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Potsay for UK. I'm Nishkumar. And I'm Coco Khan. And this week we're asking,

0:18.6

is the country going to Racken, Ruben? Plus, like Rishi Sunak, I'll be trying not to crumble

0:24.4

under the glare of Labour MP and Arch Interrogator Sir Chris Bryant.

0:29.1

So the Privileges Committee has accused seven MPs of trying to undermine and impune its

0:33.8

work. The leader of the House has condemned this. Do you think that they should apologise

0:38.1

to the House? I haven't actually gone through the report yet, so you haven't read the

0:44.4

report.

0:45.4

Chris Bryant will be here on the day he's been promoted to a shadow minister job to tell

0:49.8

us how he plans to save our parliament.

0:57.8

Hi, Nish. Oh, you're not here again. What's happened? Where are you?

1:02.0

Coco, I am in rural Wales. I'm in glorious Brecken, where he is hotter than I've ever experienced

1:11.1

in Wales. It's so weird. I'm filming Hold the Front Page, which is the show where I

1:17.5

go and pretend to be a journalist at a local newspaper. As opposed to our podcast,

1:22.5

where I pretend to be a journalist at a national newspaper.

1:25.2

Oh, that's nice. What sort of stories have you done? Have you just been told to routinely

1:29.1

fuck off by everyone you asked for a comment? No, no, no. The local news, they're very happy

1:34.2

to see people from the local paper here. They're very excited. Yeah, yeah. I've done,

1:38.5

yeah, we've, yesterday we actually went to the auditions for the Christmas Panto. Oh,

1:45.9

wow. Like an Amdram Christmas Panto. It was really, it was a very nice wholesome afternoon.

1:52.8

I will say that everyone we've run into so far has said, thanks for coming to Wales.

1:59.3

Sorry, it's so hot that they all seem sort of vaguely perplexed by the state, by the state

2:05.8

of the weather. I'm going to attempt the Welsh pronunciation of where I am. It's Banai

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