Is the job too big for Rishi Sunak?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon, Leader of the Opposition Keir Starmer landed the blow that seems to have thus far defined political discourse since PM Rishi Sunak took office. Is he too weak to sack ministers when he needs to? Is the job just too big for him? We discuss.
And, Germany and the US have agreed to send tanks to Ukraine to help ward off Russia's invasion. Are tanks useful in modern warfare? What does this mean for the Ukrainian war effort? And will this shift the dial in a war that appears to be stagnating? We ask the former Commanding Officer of one of Britain's tank regiments, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon.
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| 0:11.9 | So confident were we at Newsagents HQ this morning that Nadim Zahawi would have to fall upon his sword or someone would have to push the sword into him, |
| 0:23.8 | that we had a sweepstake of what time it would come. |
| 0:26.1 | Because let's face it, in British politics, |
| 0:28.3 | Wednesday morning is the time when ministers resign, |
| 0:31.5 | when the prime minister recognises, |
| 0:33.3 | oh my God, I've got to go to the House of Commons |
| 0:35.4 | and answer questions and there are no good |
| 0:38.3 | answers. But resignation came there none, which means that the pot of money in our sweepstake is still |
| 0:45.0 | there and it's going to be a roll over jackpot for some other future occasion. But it set the stage |
| 0:50.6 | for a Prime Minister's questions that was uncomfortable and it made the Conservative |
| 0:55.6 | Party an easy target for opponents. This is the SNP leader Stephen Flynn. |
| 1:02.5 | Is it little wonder that people in Scotland may well just consider the Tory party to be |
| 1:07.7 | a parcel of rogues? |
| 1:09.7 | Would you say that we're a parcel of rogues? A basket of rogues? We be a parcel of rogues. Would you say that we're a parcel of rogues? |
| 1:12.6 | A basket of rogues? |
| 1:14.1 | We're a parcel of delightful journalists |
| 1:16.9 | full of integrity and decency. |
| 1:19.6 | Well, that's one way of putting it. |
| 1:20.9 | You know where the parcel of rogues things come from? |
| 1:22.4 | I didn't know until I looked at this on. |
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