How to avoid May's mistakes
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Matt Chorley is joined by Alex Dawson, a former Home Office adviser to Theresa May who became her political director in No 10, who describes how a short leadership campaign left her unprepared for what came next.
Plus Esther Webber, Red Box reporter, on the dramatic return of the Lib Dems, and Jane Merrick, Red Box columnist, on whether the royals are better at politics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | It doesn't matter how neatly you pack them away. |
| 0:23.0 | Christmas lights will always be tangled. |
| 0:26.0 | And a Christmas light tangle is more than a tangle. |
| 0:28.8 | It's a tangle that somehow gets more entangled |
| 0:31.1 | the more you attempt to untangle it. |
| 0:33.0 | So, to the loft I go. |
| 0:35.0 | With just my Christmasy coffee for company. |
| 0:38.0 | And if I'm not back by New Year, Merry Christmas. |
| 0:41.0 | Our sticky toffee latte is now at Costa. |
| 0:44.0 | That's Christmas. |
| 0:45.0 | But Costa coffee made a little better. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast and The Times I'm Matt Chorley. |
| 0:59.2 | First of all at Masses thank you to all the people who have posted reviews on iTunes |
| 1:02.0 | in the last week or so, |
| 1:03.2 | including Loft Liger, Stuart Mills in the Isle of Man, John Weir and Oscar HK, |
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