Frost Bitten, Truss Shy – Start Your Week with Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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It’s going to be a cold Christmas at No 10, as Lord Frost resigns as Brexit Minister, Simon Case recuses himself over Christmas party investigations - and Nadine Dorries gets booted out of WhatsApp chats. Is jetsetter Liz Truss ready to take up her new position? And what will all this mean for popular compliance with new COVID rules? Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou look at the week ahead, in the last SYW of 2021. “Is this what purgatory feels like?” - Naomi Smith “The bookies still have Sunak as favourite to replace Johnson. The bookies don't know their history.” - Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou “Frost's resignation has strong Steve Baker energy.” - Naomi Smith “Truss is trying to style herself as a modern day Margaret Thatcher.” - Naomi Smith “2022 might give you a nasty populist treat in the US midterms.” - Naomi Smith Presented by Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
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1:13.2	We should be winding down for the holidays.
1:15.2	It is the 20th of December after all.
1:17.0	Yet the news matrix seems more packed than ever.
1:19.8	Let's try to pick it apart with the help of the brilliant Naomi Smith.
1:23.7	Morning, Naomi.
1:24.9	Good morning, Alex.
1:26.9	Naomi, it is fitting that the last start your week of the year should be dominated by the specter of COVID-19 restrictions, a
1:37.0	venal government in meltdown protocol negotiations up in the air and the PM in hiding.
1:46.5	What what...
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