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Politics Unpacked

He Who Wields The Knife

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Columnist Robert Crampton and Times Red Box's own Esther Webber pick over the day's news with Matt Chorley; then former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine, Conservative minster John Whittingdale, Times former Political Editor Phil Webster and former Telegraph Political Editor Julia Langdon and former civil servant Caroline Slocock recount what happened when Margaret Thatcher was ousted from power, thirty years ago this week.

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:15.0

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0:20.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy champion,

0:29.2

accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in

0:36.7

cleaner, more secure homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks

0:41.8

across the country to connect renewable energy,

0:44.6

households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:48.0

Pioneering low-carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest

0:54.9

offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete

0:59.6

Dogger Bank will be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy,

1:06.5

a major step towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions.

1:12.1

And all this is creating thousands of sustainable green jobs in communities

1:17.0

right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com slash change.

1:29.0

Hello, one to the Red Box podcast, I'm Matt Cholly, bringing the best of my Times radio show. Monday to Thursday,

1:35.0

till one. It's the end of our week at least. On a Thursday, our panelists, our Robert Cranpton, Esther Weber.

1:42.0

They'll be here in a minute talking about

1:43.4

everything from how do you get more women into politics to what chair they're

1:47.0

currently sitting on while working from home. Plus it's 30 years ago this week that

1:51.8

Margaret Thatcher was ousted as Prime Minister.

1:54.6

I can speak to Michael Hesseltine, John Wittingdale and others who were in number 10 with

1:58.9

it at the time and two journalists who covered the story at the time.

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