Have the Tories Just Given Up?

Oh God, What Now?

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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With the PM and his party on the back foot – have they just given up? Our panel picks apart Sunak’s dither and delay in his sacking of Nadhim Zahawi. Plus, are we seeing a new, even more hostile, hostile environment? And we forcefully quit the anti-growth coalition as we discuss alternatives to Trussonomics. This week’s guest is Rachel Cunliffe, senior associate editor at New Statesman. “If Rishi Sunak didn't know about this, what is the point of ministerial vetting processes? What is the point of saying you’re going to bring integrity back to Government?” – Rachel Cunliffe “Even an experienced PM would struggle to put the box in what Johnson is doing.” – Ian Dunt “All of the things you need to fix the problems that we have takes much longer than Sunak has.” – Ian Dunt “The Tories have a talent pool problem and an exhaustion problem. That is really problematic because we need the best Government we can to weather the storm.” – Miatta Fahnbulleh www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison with Ian Dunt and Miatta Fahnbulleh. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producer: Alex Rees. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to our Godworn now, I'm Andrew Harrison. On today's show, life
0:10.1	after Nadim Zahali, in a country where Rod Stewart is doing more for the NHS than the
0:14.1	government is. The hostile environment towards Irune is back at game and, naughty, naughty,
0:20.3	very naughty, Jeremy Hontis promising a new four-ease approach to growth, enterprise,
0:25.2	education, employment and everywhere, whatever that means. How's the over-done on the
0:29.6	ease and does it need to lie down? Before we start, we know you enjoy
0:33.2	our Godworn now, so think how much more you enjoy it, alive on stage before your very eyes.
0:37.5	We're on the Leicester Square Theatre on Wednesday, the 15th of February, at seven o'clock,
0:41.3	with Ian Dunn, Ross Taylor, Aisha Hazarika and Alex Andreo. It's our first show there in six
0:45.9	months and it promises to be a cracking nice. Take it to the sale right now at LeicesterSquirtTheatre.com
0:51.0	and of course Patreon People Get A Discounts, check your Patreon page. Now let's meet today's
0:55.9	panel. First up, it's the co-host of Origin Story and the author of How Westminster Works
1:00.6	and Why It Doesn't, out on the 13th of April, it's Ian Dunn's, Halloween Dunn's.
1:04.2	Hello, hello, hello. So in podcast favourites news, Andrew Bridget is threatening to see Matt
1:10.6	Hancock for £100,000 because Hancock accused him of spreading, quotes, anti-Semitic, anti-vax
1:16.0	conspiracy theories. And as we know from watching arrested developments on telly, just threatening
1:20.0	to see who's free, so that's okay. What would you reckon? It's not free, you should have to pay
1:24.1	for them to send that letter. Well, all right, cheap, then. Certainly, considerably cheaper than
1:27.4	doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So how would you reckon to Andrew Bridget's chances of getting a payday
1:33.2	from Hancock? Not great. I mean, it'll be amazing if you got to that stage and you would actually
1:38.0	be in court seeing, you know, the actual judicial assessment of whether this was anti-Semitic or
1:43.2	whether it's a conspiracy theory. There be many, many defences open to Matthew Hancock and even in
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