Hello From The Other Side: Thatcher's Rise To Power
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In half a century just three opposition leaders have become prime minister. 45 years after Margaret Thatcher arrived in Downing Street, Matt hears from the people who knew her best - including Conservative colleagues Ken Clarke, Jonathan Aitken, and David Howell, aide turned author Michael Dobbs, her biographer Charles Moore, and her daughter Carol Thatcher.
Plus: Manveen Rana and Matthew Parris discuss the SNP's leadership struggles, is noise in the Commons a good thing, and whether you should trust attractive politicians.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Cholly, and this is Politics Without the Boing Bits. |
| 0:07.0 | Coming up on today's episode in the last half century, just three people have gone from being leader of the opposition to Prime Minister. |
| 0:15.0 | Today we take a look at what happened 45 years ago this week |
| 0:19.0 | when Margaret Thatcher became one of them speaking to the people who knew her best. |
| 0:24.0 | A really fascinating insight into the politics, the policies and the people |
| 0:30.0 | that helped her change almost everything about her in order to become Prime Minister in 1979. |
| 0:36.0 | And before that in the columnist, Mamin Rana and Matthew Paris on whether the future of the Union looks safer as the SMP |
| 0:45.4 | descending to chaos. And if you like what you here on the podcast don't forget you can |
| 0:48.7 | join me for politics like the boring bits live on Times Radio on your DAB radio |
| 0:52.4 | on your smart speaker or download the Times Radio app. |
| 0:55.6 | That's Politics Without the Boring Bits, weekdays from 10. |
| 0:58.8 | Happy local elections day to those who celebrate and happy First Minister in crisis to everyone else. |
| 1:07.4 | And a very good body to the New York Times who've come up with a brilliant idea of speaking to politicians who are standing down at the next election. |
| 1:15.0 | This year is my 58th consecutive year as an elected official. |
| 1:20.0 | I never planned on doing it for more than just a few years now we're going on 28 years I knew it was time to leave about three weeks after I got to Congress |
| 1:29.7 | It just took me a long time to try to figure out how to get out of this place. |
| 1:34.0 | Why didn't we think of this? |
| 1:35.6 | Speaking to more than a hundred, some of the more than a hundred MPs have announced they're quitting. |
| 1:40.8 | Got an idea. |
| 1:42.2 | Ah, joke check, of course, you can find our exit interviews right now. |
| 1:47.1 | Just search on the politics out the Boobits podcast. |
| 1:49.4 | Now. |
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