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Politics Unpacked

How To Build A Prime Minister

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week marks 300 years since Britain got its first Prime Minister. In the first instalment of a special Prime Ministers' week, Matt Chorley is joined by Times Columnist Danny Finkelstein, Historian and political biographer Anthony Seldon, author and journalist Andrew Gimson and former civil servant Jill Rutter to discuss what qualities are needed to build the perfect Prime Minister. 


PLUS Columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves pick over the days' news. 



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0:00.0

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0:12.4

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0:30.4

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

0:38.4

champion accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over £9 million a day

0:46.6

in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks across the country

0:52.8

to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon

0:59.4

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

1:04.8

offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will be

1:10.8

capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean, renewable energy, a major step

1:17.6

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of

1:24.4

sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing

1:32.3

at SSE.com slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast, I'm Matt

1:40.4

Shirley and this is Prime Minister's Week. How exciting. So this week marks 300 years since

1:47.3

Robert Warpole became Britain's first Prime Minister. So all this week on the podcast,

1:51.7

we're going to be taking a look at what it takes to be a good Prime Minister. How do you win

1:55.6

at PMQ's? Can Kis Starmer become a Prime Minister? We'll be asking the focus group. We've convened

2:02.3

the focus group asking swing voters and Red Wall seats later this week, what they think Kis Starmer.

2:06.7

We're also going to speak to one of the creators of Yes Prime Minister about the impact they've had

2:11.3

on Whitehall turns out it was, it wasn't, it wasn't quite what they expected. But today we kick off

2:17.2

with how to build the perfect Prime Minister. We assemble the attributes and potentially body parts

2:23.4

required to really succeed in number 10. That's coming up next. First, as ever, we kick off

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