Lessons From A Dying Government
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
What can Rishi Sunak learn from the final days of the Major government, when the prime minister was behind in the polls with a party mired in sleaze and infighting? Matt talks to Howell James, John Major's political secretary in the lead up to the 1997 election.
PLUS: Columnists Manveen Rana and Matthew Parris discuss whether the prime minister's's AI summit can help him escape his domestic political troubles, whether King Charles should have apologised to Kenya for colonial-era abuses, and whether height matters in politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Cala McDonnell here, one of the presenters of Times Radio Breakfast. |
| 0:03.2 | Just to let you know about the future of food and drink summit, |
| 0:06.2 | in November, the Times and the Sunday Times Scotland, |
| 0:09.3 | are hosting a field to fork overview of the food and drink industry, |
| 0:13.9 | featuring global brands and exciting startups |
| 0:17.0 | all looking for fresh avenues for future growth. |
| 0:20.2 | And you can be there too. |
| 0:22.3 | Come and join me and those experts in Aberdeen, |
| 0:25.5 | register at times-event.com, forward slash, food and drink. |
| 0:32.4 | This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, |
| 0:37.1 | a leading, clean energy champion, |
| 0:39.2 | accelerating the transition to net zero. |
| 0:43.1 | SSE is investing over £9 million a day |
| 0:46.7 | in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. |
| 0:50.0 | That includes transforming networks across the country |
| 0:52.8 | to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, |
| 0:58.0 | pioneering low-carbon, flexible technologies, |
| 1:00.8 | such as carbon capture and storage, |
| 1:03.2 | and building the world's largest offshore wind farm, |
| 1:06.0 | a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. |
| 1:09.0 | When complete, doggar bank will be capable of powering |
| 1:12.1 | over six million homes a year with clean, renewable energy, |
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