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🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Welcome to the second episode of The Rest Is Politics with Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell!
With Ukrainian refugees struggling to claim asylum in the UK, why aren't the British government's actions matching up to its rhetoric? Rory and Alastair discuss the importance of personal relationships in matters of state, and question whether the current honours system is fit for purpose after former education and defence secretary Gavin Williamson was given a knighthood.
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0:00.0 | Now, before we get started today, a bit of |
0:02.2 | moderately exciting news, I hope. We've got our final live show |
0:05.6 | of the year, next Tuesday, December 13 at a sold out Royal Alba Hall, |
0:11.5 | which is a bit weird, frankly. It's going to be our kind of end of the year review, |
0:15.9 | looking back at the craziest year in British politics, probably since last |
0:20.0 | year, frankly. And we know that quite a lot of you missed out on tickets, |
0:24.0 | and we're very sorry about that, and also that some of you who've got tickets |
0:28.0 | may not be able to make it to London, I've had a few messages like that |
0:31.6 | because of the train struts, etc. So we are going to make a live stream of the |
0:36.4 | event available exclusively to subscribers to the restus politics plus. |
0:42.8 | And if you may know, that's where you can sign up to avoid adverts and |
0:48.1 | get access to events and all sorts of other stuff. So just go to |
0:52.4 | www.therestuspolitics.com to sign up. It will not break the bank even in this |
0:58.8 | cost of living crisis. So we started 8pm next Tuesday night. |
1:02.8 | Join Royal Me live on stage as we try to cram 2022 into a couple of hours. |
1:09.5 | That's www.therestuspolitics.com. Sign up now and we'll send out the link |
1:15.6 | next Tuesday night. Enjoy the show. |
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