Let them eat cake
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The last of the Hope family's Christmas cake joins the guests in the Red Lion this week, and Wes Streeting is the first to take Christopher Hope up on the offer of having a slice. The Shadow Health Secretary insists that Labour wouldn't be the "fun police" to ban cakes in offices following comments this week from the chair of the Food Standards Agency, explains why he won't "wag his finger" at people who use private healthcare and proclaims that he's up for a debate about his proposed NHS reforms.
Also on the podcast, Conservative MP Lee Anderson discusses levelling up, slimming down, and challenges campaigner Steve "Stop Brexit" Bray to a charity boxing battle (no, really).
Plus Baroness Stowell, Tina Stowell, on why politicians need to take the creative industries more seriously.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Shoppers Politics |
| 0:04.0 | He's a nuisance and I've got a challenge for him. |
| 0:07.0 | Mink me in the boxing ring. |
| 0:08.0 | Let's do three rounds and if I win he never never protests out there again. |
| 0:13.0 | And if he wins, I'll go and protest with him. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Christopher Hope, the Associate Editor for Politics at the Daily Telegraph, |
| 0:22.0 | and this is Chopper's Politics. |
| 0:24.7 | Cake in politics are a heady mix. |
| 0:28.0 | Boris Johnson was brought down by the absence or not of a cake at a birthday party during lockdown and this |
| 0:34.6 | week Professor Susan Jeb the chairman of the Food Standards Agency likened bringing |
| 0:40.1 | cake into the office to passive smoking in pubs when smoking was allowed. |
| 0:46.0 | So this week we're looking at whether politicians can have their cake and eat it too. |
| 0:50.9 | Can labor reach out enough to the right and not alienate the left as it seeks to present itself |
| 0:57.1 | as a government in waiting? I'll discuss that with Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting. |
| 1:02.4 | And Redwall Tory MP with Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting. |
| 1:03.3 | And Redwall Tory MP Le Anderson joins us to talk about whether the South really needs money to level |
| 1:09.0 | up. |
| 1:10.0 | And his attempt is shared one and a half stones by saying no to cake and we'll have Baroness |
| 1:15.4 | Stahl Abeston Tina Stahl on the need to support our creative industries and to |
| 1:22.0 | get it all started I bought along the last of the Hope |
| 1:24.8 | Family's Christmas cake in a small top of air box. First up, where's |
| 1:29.4 | streeting? Shadow Health Secretary. Where's welcome to Jopers Politics? |
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