Is 'sorry' enough to save the PM?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
After yesterday's stunning economic U-turn, today was a day where it was eerily quiet... almost too quiet. Why? Have the Conservatives finally decided to coalesce around their beleaguered leader? Was Jeremy Hunt's announcement enough to quell the baying wolves? It certainly calmed the markets down.
We explore what's happening now, what manoeuvring could be going on behind the scenes, and how pivotal tomorrow's Prime Minister's Questions is for her. If she comes through it well, she could be able to put her stuttering start behind her.
And we talk to Conservative MP and former chief whip Andrew Mitchell in the studio, and we also talk President Biden's extraordinary intervention in UK politics. Jon tells him to, well, mind his own business.
Plus - we want to hear your questions. Send them in via our socials or email us at newsagents@global.com.
Planning: Melissa Tutesigensi
Social Editor: Ollie McGrath
Production: Gabriel Radus
Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | There have been one or two terrifying occasions in my career where I have watched a bomb falling from a plane and exploding not that far away from where I'm standing. |
| 0:18.9 | And what you're struck by is the incredible noise when the blast happens |
| 0:25.0 | and then the really weird silence that follows. |
| 0:30.2 | And I just wonder in British politics whether the past 48 hours we've had the explosion |
| 0:37.2 | and today we've had this strange, quiet. |
| 0:42.2 | And I think it's a really good way of pulling it, John, but people listening to this might be thinking, |
| 0:47.6 | we've basically had three weeks of tumult and chaos and day after day of the air in the balloon, to use a slightly different metaphor, |
| 0:57.7 | the balloon filling and filling and filling. And then suddenly today, it's as if all the air is |
| 1:03.0 | escaped. And I think we could just spend this podcast just explaining why that is, but also why |
| 1:09.3 | it might be a bit of an illusion as well. |
| 1:12.0 | Because one shouldn't mistake quiet for calm. |
| 1:17.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:22.4 | The newsagents. |
| 1:24.6 | It's John in Newsagents HQ. |
| 1:27.4 | Anne Lewis in Newsagents HQ. Anne Lewis in Newsagents HQ. |
| 1:29.4 | And Alex Davis has contacted us on Twitter to say that because Emily's not here, should it instead be the news gents rather the news agents? |
| 1:39.7 | It makes it sound like a urinal. |
| 1:41.8 | I don't like that at all. |
| 1:43.9 | Sorry, Alex. |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah, well, the old phrase was that the relationship between a journalist and a politician |
| 1:50.0 | should be the same as between a dog and a lamp post. |
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