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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Fuel to the binfire — Start Your Week with Alex Andreou and Ros Taylor

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak faces more backbench backlash as Parliament returns. Plus – will an emergency summit give closure to the 700 victims of the Post Office scandal? Finally in a year of vital elections, how will the Taiwan election shape global politics?   • “Sunak should not be pandering to the party faithful. That’s not governing.” – Ros Taylor  • “We’re looking at three byelections in just eight days. It doesn’t look good for the Conservatives.” – Alex Andreou • “Why has it taken an ITV drama to get the Post Office scandal noticed?” – Ros Taylor Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Alex Andreou with Ros Taylor. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

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.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

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0:36.7

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0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to start your week from the bunker. I'm Alex Andreu.

1:12.0

With me this morning to talk through the weekend's blockbuster stories and this week's upcoming attractions is Ros Taylor. Good morning, Ros.

1:20.0

Hello Alex.

1:21.0

Another big week for Prime Minister Sunak he seems to have chickened out of

1:25.8

bringing the random bill back to Parliament after rumblings over the holidays that he

1:30.3

was trying to railroad his backbenchers by imposing a sort of a compressed timetable.

1:36.7

But the offshore petroleum licensing bill, a bill that will approve more drilling licenses, is today and that's been quite controversial do we expect

1:46.2

on happiness? Yes it may well be that some Tory MPs will rebel people have their eyes on people like Theresa May for example.

1:54.4

It's an issue of principle. It's the most symbolic thing it's really going back on

2:00.3

the promise of net zero and there will be strong arguments obviously being made in

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