Has Rishi sunk Boris?
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🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We said yesterday that Rishi Sunak had taken a massive gamble announcing a new deal for Northern Ireland without having necessarily laid the political groundwork beforehand.
Well, 24 hours later, and it feels like he might have pulled off a blinder. The far-right of his Tory party are...quiet, and the DUP seem cautiously optimistic. Perhaps most importantly, Boris Johnson, a key potential spanner in Sunak's works, hasn't poked his head above the parapet. Could this be the start of a Conservative government rising from the ashes of internecine warfare? And could that well prove problematic for one Keir Starmer?
And in the podcast, we talk to someone who knows a thing or two about significant Irish agreements: former Taoiseach from 1997-2008, Bertie Ahern, who orchestrated the Good Friday Agreement with Tony Blair's Labour government back in 1998, some 25 years ago.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Yesterday on the show, we said that Rishi Sunak had made a big gamble. |
| 0:18.8 | Well, if all we're thinking about is the reaction 24 hours later, |
| 0:24.3 | the gamble so far appears to have almost unequivocally paid off. Just look at some of the |
| 0:29.9 | headlines from the papers this morning. The mail, has Rishi done the impossible, the sun, |
| 0:36.0 | the sausage wars are over, the independent. Look who finally got |
| 0:40.1 | Brexit done. And it wasn't you, Boris, the Times, a Brexit breakthrough. And the telegraph. |
| 0:47.3 | Boris Johnson's political media home says the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak played a difficult hand well. |
| 0:54.0 | It was arguably his best day yet. |
| 0:56.5 | That is going to sting, one Boris Johnson. |
| 0:59.8 | What was extraordinary about yesterday is not just the headlines he's got today, |
| 1:05.0 | but the rollout of messaging, the way it was so disciplined, the way it was well planned and executed, was like nothing we have seen in British politics for at least, well, two prime ministers. |
| 1:21.8 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:26.6 | The newsagents. |
| 1:29.1 | It's John and it's Lewis and we're going to take you through exactly where we think the politics are and the policy is really of where we are 24 hours later after the Windsor framework. |
| 1:39.5 | But it is just worth noting. We said just now the press has been pretty gushing. |
| 1:43.7 | Business has also been out in force |
| 1:45.9 | saying that they're relieved. The Best for Britain group, which is a sort of pro-European group, |
| 1:50.8 | it has to be said, but nonetheless, they put together a list of 78 leading business figures |
| 1:55.1 | signing a letter supporting the Windsor framework. That includes international chambers of |
| 2:00.4 | commerce, Virgin Group, |
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