General Election: A case of 'when' not 'if?'

Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

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4.0 • 156 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, Boris Johnson has lost his majority, lost control of parliament, lost a vote over a no-deal Brexit and lost an attempt to call a general election. 21 MPs lost the Conservative whip after defying the Prime Minister while Mr Johnson's brother quit as an MP. All this in the first three days after the summer recess. These are not normal times in Westminster and what happens next is anyone's guess. Joining Adam Boulton to help make sense of it all are the Conservative writer Tim Montgomerie, James Meadway who's a former adviser to Labour's John McDonnell and Sky's chief political correspondent Jon Craig.

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0:00.0	The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.
0:03.5	How can we make sense of it all?
0:04.9	I'm Richard Engelt.
0:05.7	And I'm Yalda Hekeem.
0:06.7	And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.
0:10.9	And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.
0:14.6	Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events
0:18.6	and explain to you why what happens out there
0:22.4	matters to you wherever you are. Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim
0:28.0	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.2	Hello, welcome to the All-Out Politics Podcast from Sky News.
0:39.7	I'm Adam Bolton.
0:40.9	Well, what a week it's been.
0:43.0	The eyes to the right, 328.
0:46.1	The nose to the left, 301.
0:49.1	Yeah.
0:53.9	Not a good start, Boris.
0:55.0	We are going to have to make a choice, Mr Speaker.
0:59.0	I don't want an election, the public don't want an election.
1:03.0	I don't believe the right honourable gentleman wants an election.
1:06.0	But if MPs vote tomorrow to stop negotiations and to compel another pointless delay to Brexit potentially
1:13.9	for years, then that would be the only way to resolve this. And I can confirm that we are
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