Leader of the Opposition: Episode 5

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Last year, to mark 300 years since Robert Walpole became Prime Minister, Matt Chorley learnt about every PM through history each week. This year, Nigel Fletcher from the Centre for Opposition Studies has gone through every Leader of the Opposition and as a festive treat you'll be able to listen to each episode on the podcast this week

In this episode, Sir William Harcourt, John Spencer, George Robinson, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice and Joseph Chamberlain.

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0:30.4	Hello, this is the Webbox Podcast. I'm Matt Chowley bringing you a special festive delights.
0:38.0	Patrick McGuire will be back with daily episodes of the podcast from January 2nd. I'll be back
0:42.5	on the 9th. But until then, we're going to be dropping our leader of the opposition feature
0:47.3	in your time routes every day. In 2021, we rounded up every Prime Minister with Andrew
0:52.8	Jimson and in 2022. Nigel Fletcher from the Centre for Opposition Studies has been telling us
0:58.1	about every leave of the opposition who crucially never made it to number 10, from Charles James
1:03.6	Foxx all the way through to Keir Starmer. So let's get on with it then. Hit the montage.
1:18.1	Well, it's quite a long life, so I'm going to have to sort of gable my way through it,
1:23.4	because he's quite a significant figure from the Victorian era. And once again, we've
1:28.0	got a politician whose time as leader is vastly overshadowed by his other career highlights.
1:34.2	And he did come very close to becoming Prime Minister, and indeed was widely expected to do so.
1:39.6	He was a leading figure of the age. He earned the nickname The Great Gladiator, although I'm
1:44.0	always a bit suspicious of sort of flattering nicknames like that, which sounds as though he probably
1:47.5	gave it to himself. Later on in his career, he was rather more unflatteringly known as Jumbo on
1:53.2	account of having put on considerable amounts of weight. But his grandfather was Archbishop of
1:59.4	York, and his father was a vicar, so he came from quite a religious background. And they were
2:03.9	related to several of the noble families of the age, which became something of a joke amongst his
2:08.8	political opponents during his career, because he was rather a grand figure and somewhat arrogant.
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