Lord Frost on Partygate, Brexit and why he quit the Cabinet
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Boarding the rocket of right-thinking in a podcast exclusive, no less, is Lord Frost. The one-time chief Brexit negotiator, who quit his Cabinet role as Brexit minister in December, tells Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson how the Government’s ineffective Covid policy drove him out of Downing Street, what it was really like sitting opposite Brussels on the negotiating table and why he advises slow steps in the Net Zero agenda.
Also on the podcast - the question not even Number 10 knows the answer to: Can Boris Johnson survive so-called Partygate? Our co-pilots debate whether public outcry at a Downing Street gathering over May's lockdown could spell the end of the Johnson premiership.
And is there an internal plot against the PM? Our hosts have their own theories.
Watch Lord Frost's interview with Liam: https://youtu.be/hFId3IUxH9w |
Allison will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 13th January 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/01/13/lord-frost-covid-lockdowns-serious-mistake-government-needs/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/allison-pearson/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | I don't think Boris Johnson will ever actually fully recover |
| 0:15.0 | from this righteous sense of public anger for... |
| 0:20.0 | Will she buy that it was a work event or will she see it as illegal? |
| 0:26.0 | Stop doing Covid, theatre, vaccine passports, masks, stuff that doesn't work and focus on what does work. |
| 0:36.0 | The true tragedy at the heart of this, which is how is Carrie going to peel off £112,000 worth of gold and wallpaper from number 10? |
| 0:47.0 | We have let it off. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello. |
| 0:59.0 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 1:01.0 | Will Boris Johnson cling on? |
| 1:03.0 | That's the question dominating British politics right now and no wonder. |
| 1:07.0 | Reports that a hundred downing street staff were invited to drinks in the number 10 garden at the height of the May 2020 lockdown... |
| 1:14.0 | ...to take advantage of the lovely weather in the words of the official email invitation have caused huge public anger. |
| 1:22.0 | The House of Commons over recent days has heard numerous stories from Labour MPs and others... |
| 1:27.0 | ...telling of the very real trials and tribulation of ordinary people during lockdown... |
| 1:32.0 | ...of the damage caused and the contrast with the cheese and wine garden parties that were then happening at the heart of government. |
| 1:40.0 | Pity that so many of the MPs now recounting those horrific stories of human suffering... |
| 1:46.0 | ...were not only in favour of full on lockdown but wanted the restrictions to be even tighter. |
| 1:51.0 | The Prime Minister though is in grave political danger more so than at any time in his premiership. |
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