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Where Politics Meets History

For The Many: Nice Beaver

Where Politics Meets History

Global

News, Politics, History

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Jacqui Smith & Iain Dale discuss the NATO summit, Justin Trudeau’s faux pas, the LibDem XR protest, the New Statesman refusing to endorse Corbyn and Jeremy Corbyn’s irritating habit… Jacqui reveals she wished she hadn’t contested the 2010 election and they both relate how it feels to lose an election.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the midweek edition of The For The Many podcast.

0:08.5

I'm Ian Dale.

0:09.5

And I'm Jackie Smith.

0:10.7

Good afternoon.

0:11.7

Good evening.

0:12.0

Good morning.

0:12.5

Whatever it is.

0:13.8

We are sitting here in a very, very cold LBC studio on Wednesday evening.

0:20.0

The wind's going right up in Gusset. I don't know about you.

0:22.1

You are being an utter Walter softy. It is not that. In fact, you are a big girl's blousey.

0:28.5

I am. It is not cold. There is a slight breeze. As long as I'm not a girly swat.

0:34.5

Now, we have a lot to talk about in the meager amount of time that we have for this podcast.

0:39.7

So let's start off with the NATO summit, which I would submit to you, Your Honor, that this went about as well as it could for Boris Johnson.

0:49.5

Well, given that Boris managed to sort of hide behind Christmas trees, lamp posts, filing cabinets,

0:58.9

anything that he could find in order to not have his photo taken with Donald Trump.

1:03.2

Do you actually really think that that was the agenda?

1:05.5

Yes.

1:06.0

Do you?

1:06.8

Because he did have a couple of pictures with him.

1:08.4

But I remember last night when I was on air, Donald Trump arrived in Downing Street with Melania.

1:15.0

And so I did a sort of...

1:16.3

We're a lovely cape.

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