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London Calling

Hit First, Hit Hard, Hit Often

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Half of our intrepid duo comes to us this week from Birmingham, the site of the 2022 Conservative Party Conference as the PM and the Chancellor retreat from the higher-end tax cuts. Its a pugilistic edition of London Calling as James and Toby pick a fight and debate the proper strategy to win one. In Culture Corner, James takes on The Old Man (FX/Hulu in the US, Disney+ in the UK) while Toby... Source

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0:00.0

This is London Calling.

0:02.0

London Calling.

0:03.0

We just talk to people. We listen to people. I get it.

0:06.0

Talk to people. We saw people's reactions.

0:09.0

We were talking to constituents.

0:11.0

We were talking to a whole range of stakeholders, and we felt that the 45P issue, the 45P rate, was drowning out a strong package of intervention on energy, a strong package of intervention on tax cuts for people generally and we decided

0:29.2

not to proceed with getting rid of the 45 P rate.

0:35.0

Welcome to London recording with me James Danning Park

0:40.0

and my very good friend Mr Toby Young.

0:43.2

Tobes, you intimated that you might be at the Conservative conference?

0:48.9

Yeah, I'm sitting in my hotel room at the Premier Inn in Birmingham because I'm currently attending the

0:57.2

annual Conservative Party conference and I have to apologize in advance to our listeners that the sound quality may not be as good as normal because I'm recording it on the built-in mic on my

1:14.0

external mic with me. I hope it's not too ticked.

1:15.0

People have come to expect

1:16.0

tip-top sound quality from us.

1:19.0

I think they have.

1:20.0

The stand-out features of our podcast

1:22.0

so they're going to be gutted to me. I can't hear it anyway.

1:25.4

Okay good. Well you, from my end I like a damn fool do you know what I did what I didn't go and get my my

1:38.7

kill shots and I think this may be the reason why I've now got a sore throat and I'm feeling a bit rotten.

1:44.4

Do you think you actually might have the Corona?

1:50.0

No, I don't think so.

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