Is Andrew Lansley a compromised candidate?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.1 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, Tim Montgomerie is joined by Francis Elliott, Matthew Parris and Jenni Russell. DYR? Francis ElliottIf David Cameron really wants the European Commission to be an agent for change and a place where dynamic politicians go to complete a glittering career two of his arguments from the Juncker J'accuse speech last week - then why on earth is he poised to send Andrew Lansley to Brussels?Matthew ParrisNeither my time nor my capacity for enquiry and deliberation are unlimited. So I have decided to have no opinion at all on what those involved should do about the ISIS crisis. We British are not involved. I have no opinion on the future of the US Space Program, either. Jenni RussellThere's been outrage over the revelation that Facebook spent a week manipulating the news its users read to discover whether giving them sad or happy stories affected what they then posted online. The anger is justified. But we are all being manipulated all the time by what we read, see and choose to follow...

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0:50.0	Did you read with Tim Montgomery.
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1:01.4	This week I'm joined by our political editor, Francis Elliot, and regular columnist
1:05.7	Matthew Paris and Jenny Russell.
1:07.7	If David Cameron really wants the European Commission to be an Asian for change and a place where dynamic politicians
1:13.6	go to complete a glittering career, two of his arguments from the Juncker Jacques Hughes speech last
1:19.1	week, then why on earth is he poised to send Andrew Lansley to Brussels?
1:24.4	Neither my time nor my capacity for inquiry and deliberation are unlimited.
1:30.0	So I have decided to have no opinion at all on what those involved should do about the ISIS crisis.
1:37.0	We British are not involved. I have no opinion on the future of the US space program either.
1:45.0	There's been outrage over the revelation that Facebook spent a week
1:48.0	manipulating the news its users read to discover whether giving them sad
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