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Politics Unpacked

Jeremy Hunt on democracy in crisis

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, tells Matt Chorley about the risk of social unrest if Brexit is stopped, his fears over the decline of freedom around the world, and how he carries out diplomacy via WhatsApp.

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

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0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to this special episode of the Red Box Politics

0:28.7

Podcast on The Times.

0:30.0

I'm Matt Chorley.

0:31.0

You join me in the extraordinary splendour of the Foreign and Commonwealth

0:34.8

office where I'm sitting down with Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, to discuss what he sees as a crisis

0:39.3

and democracy around the world. The risk of social unrest if Brexit is not properly delivered

0:44.2

and how foreign ministers use WhatsApp to carry out diplomacy around the world.

0:48.3

Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, AICAS, Spotify or wherever you listen in these feeble political times.

0:54.6

You never know when another episode will drop.

0:56.9

And do get in touch.

0:57.9

Tell us what you think of what we've been discussing and suggest topics that we could cover

1:01.6

in future episodes. Tweet at Times Red Box or email

1:05.0

redbox at the Times dot code at UK.

1:10.0

Jeremy on here we are sitting in the amazingly grand foreign office where successive British

1:15.8

foreign secretaries have sat for decades and decades looking out across the world and seeing

1:20.4

the relentless spread of democracy and freedom and try to sort of forward those

1:25.8

Western values.

1:26.8

What is it that concerns you about what's happening in the world at the moment?

1:30.3

Well I think we are at a tipping point now and we've had a world order that's really been a chapter in two halves since the end of the Second World War.

1:40.0

Churchill and Roosevelt, between them, constructed probably the most successful way of ordering countries in the history of humanity, which over 70 years has led to unprecedented peace and

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