Let Rishi Be Rishi
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The prime minister has left Westminster to meet 'real people' and give the voters a sense of the authentic Rishi Sunak. Will it be a success like John Major's soap-box, or a failure like 'Not Flash, Just Gordon'?
Matt is joined by a panel of former advisers to discuss the perils of meeting the public.
Plus: Columnists Manveen Rana and Matthew Syed discuss Keir Starmer's election optimism, nostalgia at the World Darts Championship, and the UK’s most widespread miscarriage of justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Matt Chorley and this is Politics Without the Boring Bits. |
| 0:04.7 | There's no easy way to tell you this, but politicians are coming for you. |
| 0:08.0 | They could turn up at any moment. Stay alert. |
| 0:10.8 | Kie Kestama making a big speech today. |
| 0:13.0 | What a New Year treat that is. I wonder if his dad is a toolmaker. |
| 0:17.0 | And Ritchie Sunak could be coming to a street near you. |
| 0:20.0 | We're told he's going to get out and about and speak to voters direct. |
| 0:24.4 | We ask today, does the Let Rishi be Rishi strategy stack up? |
| 0:29.9 | Before that, our columnist Manvin R and Matthew Syed, on the post office scandal, which is |
| 0:36.0 | gripping the nation all over again thanks to that I TV drama. |
| 0:39.7 | And don't forget if you like what you hear here you can join me for Politics |
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| 0:48.8 | download the Times Radio app. That's Politics Without the Boring Bits |
| 0:52.1 | weekdays from 10. |
| 0:54.0 | Now we begin with some breaking news. |
| 0:59.0 | Our major capital letters big news story. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes, thank you Michael Cove. Now you'll remember that at the end of last year, |
| 1:06.0 | thick is mashed, spudgy hate former temporary MP and vaccine scaremonger Andrew Bridgin |
| 1:11.6 | parted company with Lawrence Fox's Reclaim Party, citing a difference |
| 1:17.3 | in the direction of the party. |
| 1:20.3 | Well, the Gido Fawkes website has got the scoop. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, apparently Andrew Bridgin borrowed the reclaimed party's company car before Christmas to do a bit of |
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