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Politics Unpacked

How To Rebuild Parliament

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

80 years ago, Winston Churchill announced a plan to rebuild the Palace of Westminster after the Commons chamber was hit during the last major raid of the blitz. Patrick Maguire in for Matt Chorley looks at the building's history from the Great Fire of London to the present day, and speaks to the chairman of Parliament's Restoration and Renewal programme Nigel Evans.


Plus: Columnists James Marriott and Isabel Hardman discuss the power of the individual backbencher, play a round of Hansard Hoedown, and ask how to write a good sex scene.


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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE,

0:04.7

a leading clean energy champion, accelerating the transition to net zero.

0:10.8

SSE is investing over £9 million a day in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy.

0:17.7

That includes transforming networks across the country to connect renewable energy,

0:22.4

households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon flexible technologies,

0:28.5

such as carbon capture and storage, and building the world's largest offshore wind farm,

0:33.6

a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will be capable of

0:39.2

powering over £6 million a year with clean, renewable energy, a major step towards the UK

0:46.3

achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable green jobs

0:53.9

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

1:07.0

Hello, you're listening to the Red Box podcast with Patrick McGuire,

1:10.4

Informature League for a final day. Yes, Matt is back on Monday. Well, no doubt

1:15.8

he'll be reminding you he's got a book out and a new podcast. In the meantime, we've got a great

1:20.3

podcast coming up for you today. We'll be talking about the renovation of Parliament,

1:24.8

80 years since Winston Churchill first proposed it. But first it's time for today's columnist

1:30.0

panel. It's a Friday, so James Mariette's here, but this week he's joined by Isabel Harmon.

1:39.3

The columnists on Times Radio. Yes, India night is a way today. So we haven't heard

1:46.2

James Mariette talking about frantically bashing at his column, but he joins me in this studio now,

1:51.1

how James? Good morning. Are you the sort of a bus driver? I am not the sort of a bus driver.

1:55.7

I'm not the answer to your quiz question. I'm afraid. If only. One day. One day I aspire to be.

2:00.0

When this show is still running in 2050, you know, straight to the microchips in our heads,

2:07.9

your career and politics will be so storied and famous that I was saying, your dad's English teacher?

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