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Politics Unpacked

Kevin McCloud On The Politics Of Housing

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What does home ownership mean about your politics? As parliament debate the housing element of the Queen's Speech, Matt Chorley speaks to property royalty Kevin McCloud, former Labour Housing Minister Margaret Beckett and the Resolution Foundation's Lindsay Judge about the politics of home ownership. 


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Times Columnists Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch talk about the easing of restrictions and Keir Starmer's documentary



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1:01.5

slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shirley. Thanks for listening as ever.

1:08.4

A special hello to today's glamorous listener Robert listening to the podcast on the coast road

1:14.7

near Aberdeen on a business trip. Remember them? My first and over a year he says he lives in London

1:20.4

but was heading up to Aberdeen on a business trip and has sent some nice photos as well of the

1:26.5

sea, which looks amazing if he calls. Anyway, let me know where you all listen to the podcast,

1:29.7

email me, match up, surely at Times.radio and we'll say hello to you on a future episode coming

1:34.4

up on today's episode. We turn our attention to the politics of housing, the government making a

1:39.2

big push in the Queen's speech and that's been debated at the House of Commons today. So if we've

1:45.0

got to talk housing, who else speaks to other than grand designs, very own Kevin McLeod, who says

1:50.2

we should all be building our own homes, glass and wicker toets optional, that's coming up in our

1:57.6

big thing on the podcast. In a moment, but first, as ever, it's economist panelist Tuesday, so it must

2:01.6

be fingerwitch. It's Danny Finkelstein and David O'One of it. Meet the Cerberus of Colomists.

2:08.8

The Janus of Journalism and the ultimate political portmanteau of opinion.

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