Have we hit peak Boris Johnson?
Daily Politics from the New Statesman
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🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Anoosh Chakelian, Ailbhe Rea and Stephen Bush reflect on Boris Johnson’s conference speech. They discuss whether Tory members love Johnson - but not Johnsonism, the spontaneous applause for the argument capitalism was responsible for the success of the vaccine programme and Johnson’s many omissions.
In part two, we have special correspondent at the New Statesman, Sophie McBain, on the show to discuss her long read on rape culture and the crisis in British schools.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, taking in the views, |
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| 0:30.9 | Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Alva. And I'm Stephen. And on today's New Statesman podcast, |
| 0:41.4 | we discuss the Conservative Party Conference in Boris Johnson's speech and then our special |
| 0:45.6 | correspondence Sophie McBain joins us to speak about her ex-bose of rape culture in British schools. |
| 0:51.1 | So, Stephen and Alva are back from Manchester. Looking a little haggard if you don't mind me saying it. |
| 1:08.8 | We have seen some stuff, okay? I mean you didn't have a hotel room when you arrived as I heard. |
| 1:14.8 | I'm actually so gutted about this because people have been coming up to me during |
| 1:19.0 | conference and saying you look surprisingly quirky considering you know the few days that you have. |
| 1:24.6 | And I say oh it's my industrial strength concealer but clearly it's failed to work. |
| 1:30.3 | Sorry, I'm actually being misleading to our listeners. You both look beautiful glowing. |
| 1:35.2 | You're lighting up the studio. No, I think fair enough. Definitely haggard on the inside. |
| 1:42.7 | So as listeners will know, we were very surprised at the quality of our hotel in Brighton. It was a |
| 1:48.2 | very nice hotel. Of course inevitably the universe had to rebalance itself because you know what's |
| 1:54.9 | the opposite of a really good hotel. Not you might think a bad hotel. It's actually no hotel. |
| 2:02.5 | So after several fruours of trying to find a hotel, yeah, how was sitting all of emails. |
| 2:07.5 | Me spending a lot of time on hold to the emergency travel people. A terrifying five minutes when |
| 2:14.4 | they tried to charge the cost of these emergency hotels to my own car when it was a bit like whoa, whoa, whoa. |
| 2:21.1 | We ended up and this also is particularly painful because long-term podcast listeners will appreciate |
| 2:26.0 | this in a novetel. Oh, that's not bad. Yeah, see even a noosh doesn't get your two podcast cohosts |
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