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🗓️ 31 March 2021
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With Parliament in recess, Matt Chorley looks at what it takes to win PMQs with former Ed Miliband advisor Ayesha Hazarika, Theresa May's former press secretary Paul Harrison, and which leaders were the best to caricature with sketch-writers Quentin Letts and Ann Treneman.
PLUS:
Times Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss the government's Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.
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| 1:36.0 | Hello, welcome to the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shirley. |
| 1:43.0 | We continue Prime Minister's week this week. |
| 1:46.0 | It is the 300th anniversary of Robert Warpaw, becoming Britain's first Prime Minister. |
| 1:50.0 | That's been marked on Saturdays. All this week we're taking a look at what it takes to be PM. |
| 1:56.0 | And it's Wednesday, no PMQs because MPs are off on their Easter recess. |
| 2:01.0 | So we thought we'd take an in-depth look at what it takes to succeed at PMQs. |
| 2:05.0 | We'll listen back to some best and worst bits and speak to some people who've both written the jokes and then taken the mic out of them in the papers afterwards. |
| 2:13.0 | That's coming up in just a set. But first, it's our columnist panel. |
| 2:16.0 | It's Wednesdays, it must be Cramp Alice. I think we're calling Robert Crabton and Alice Thompson. |
| 2:24.0 | Let's talk about, I feel a bit weird about doing this because let's talk about this report that nobody's read because all we've got is a press release. |
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