Johnson, Trump, and when Shehab met Edwina Currie

Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

ITV News

News, Government, Politics

4.3 • 179 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

There are just seven days until the general election and Donald Trump has finished his visit without causing Boris Johnson too much embarrassment. In this episode of Calling Peston, the team get Robert's take on the Nato summit and what the parties need to do to pull ahead in the last week of campaigning. But more importantly, Shehab finally gets to meet his admirer, former Tory minister Edwina Currie. She tells us how elections have changed since she was campaigning. We’ll bring you a new episode of Calling Peston every weekday around 5pm throughout the election campaign. Don’t forget to subscribe - and if you like what you hear, do rate us and leave a review. Get in touch with the Calling Peston team - contact @DanielHewittITV, @ShehabKhan and @Peston. For the latest election news, go to itv.com/news and follow @ITVNewsPolitics on Twitter.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 21 of Calling Peston, the podcast that unlike Justin Trudeau
0:08.8	would never talk about you behind your back. I'm Daniel Hewitt that, hello, in the words of Edwina
0:14.9	Curry, is the gorgeous Shehab Khan, and as the name of our show suggests, Robert Pestin, our political
0:20.0	editor will be joining
0:21.1	us on the phone for his daily dose of election reflection. Also on the podcast today, I can barely
0:27.2	contain my excitement. The moment I've certainly been waiting for since we started doing this
0:32.1	podcast, producer Lewis has pulled it out of the bag. Joining us today, former Conservative MP
0:36.1	and former minister Edwina Curry will be on the podcast.
0:41.0	But first, here's she-hab.
0:42.3	Tell us what's going on on Wednesday, the 4th of December.
0:45.2	Day two of the NATO summit in Watford, it comes after last night's event
0:49.3	when Boris Johnson was caught in conversation with the French president, Emmanuel Macron,
0:53.6	and the Canadian
0:54.2	Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as they appeared to be joking about Donald Trump's
0:58.9	impromptu press conference. Today, the Conservatives pledged £4.2 billion to transport
1:04.8	projects outside of London. The money will be spread out over five years from 2022, while John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor,
1:12.7	was speaking in Birmingham and claim that he could save each household an average of £7,000 a year
1:17.8	by increasing the minimum wage and reducing household bills by nationalising the railways and utilities.
1:24.0	Thank you, Shihab.
1:24.9	It's okay.
1:25.4	May have noticed a slight difference in sound today because I think the bosses may have heard
1:30.4	us moan so much about being in that little cupboard that we were in that they've given us a new room.
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