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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Matt speaks to Leon co-founder Henry Dimbleby, who has just resigned as the government's 'food tsar'. He explains why he's quit, what's wrong with our supply chains and why it's so difficult to persuade the Government to change Britain's diet.
Plus columnists Daniel Finkelstein and Henry Zeffman on Boris Johnson's Partygate defence, and whether Nicola Sturgeon's social media warning echoes Tony Blair's 'feral beasts' speech.
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0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Choddy bringing the best of my times video. |
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0:18.6 | I appreciate you down on the podcast coming up on today's episode. We're talking food. |
0:23.7 | One of my favorite things, Henry Dimbleby is just quit as the government's food czar. |
0:28.6 | He tells me why and what we should do about it to try and sort out what we eat. That's |
0:33.8 | coming up in just a moment before that though. They're back. Let's talk for this. |
0:58.6 | Yes, we say very good morning to the stepter and son of news. It is Danny Fukustai. |
1:08.0 | Morning, Danny. Good morning. And have a good morning. Good morning. Right. Let's talk |
1:12.1 | about Boris Johnson. Richie soon out, warning this morning, he will not intervene to stop |
1:17.3 | Boris Johnson being suspended from Parliament for misleading MPs. If indeed he is, I mean, |
1:21.2 | it's entirely possible, Henry, that this committee finds that Boris Johnson did not mislead |
1:25.2 | Parliament and the far from it being a kangaroo court is a fine upstanding defender of Boris Johnson. |
1:32.7 | Yeah, it's possible. It appears increasingly unlikely. I mean, let's just be precise about |
1:38.9 | what they are investigating him for. So it's not whether he mislead Parliament. It's whether he |
1:44.3 | mislead Parliament and in doing so deliberately or recklessly was in contempt of Parliament. So |
1:49.2 | the bar is moderately high. But then the charge sheet, as it were, is pretty serious. The committee |
1:58.8 | published this. It's sort of called an interim report. It's not quite that. It's sort of |
2:02.5 | statement of the case that they intend to press against him. They published this couple of weeks ago. |
2:07.9 | And over 20 or so pages, they identified four different ways in which he might have mislead |
2:14.2 | Parliament when he said things like, I have been assured that the guidance was followed at all |
2:19.2 | times that no rules were broken and so on. I'm paraphrasing. But then the sort of kernel of their case, |
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