'Intimidation and Blackmail'

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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A senior Tory accuses Number 10 of using blackmail to keep rebellious MPs in line. Adam, Chris and Laura chew the fat over the latest serious claims and they are joined by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Simon Clarke, to discuss an apology, a defection and strong-arm tactics. Today's Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg, John Murphy and Sally Abrahams. The assistant editor was Ali Gee.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Often we're talking about whether people are telling porky pies this week we've been talking
0:08.4	about actual pork pies in politics.
0:10.5	Laura, what is the short version of why we ended up there?
0:13.1	Okay, the short version is on Tuesday lunchtime.
0:16.9	I happen to be talking to a government minister who was, shall we say, quite irritated.
0:20.5	What you're irritated about?
0:21.5	Well, they're meeting, they're plotting, they're meeting.
0:23.5	Oh dear.
0:24.5	Well, some of these 2019 people, and you know, one of them's the MP for Milton.
0:29.3	Oh, let's say, oh, it's the pork pie plot.
0:31.3	Ha, ha, ha.
0:32.3	And a bit of a laugh, bit of a joke, or pork pie plots.
0:35.3	I then went off and tried to find out who some of these were and tried to find out if
0:40.3	such a plot and a meeting had actually taken place and it had.
0:43.4	And then the quote from the minister saying they dubbed it the pork pie plot was born.
0:49.0	And now you've got a massive plate of pork pies and so of you.
0:52.4	I've got one that I'm going to have later.
0:54.2	Anyway, enough of that politics, rubbish.
0:56.0	This is an excuse now to test out some pork pies from different pork pie per vera's.
1:00.7	We're absolutely fantastic.
1:01.9	I normally prefer a hot pork pie myself.
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