Mad night at the circus
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The summer silly season isn’t yet upon us but already things have descended into circus mode, with Boris Johnson’s resignation as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. But did he jump or was he pushed? And will he go down without a fight?
Allison thinks Boris Johnson is being hung out to dry in a ‘witch hunt’ and doesn't believe any former Prime Minister deserves.
Whilst Liam is quick to identify the holes in the recent Covid inquiry, which he thinks shows our country in a poor light.
With Westminster descending into chaos could there be one hell of a political ‘ding dong’ on the cards for the upcoming by-elections in England?
Also boarding the rocket this week is Russian specialist and author Owen Matthews, who in light of Putin’s recent offensive in Ukraine joins our co-pilots to share why he thinks we may be a long way off a peaceful resolution to the war.
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Call of the Witch Hunt, Boris has already lost: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/06/14/boris-johnson-privileges-committee/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | It's Mad Night at the circus, isn't it? Boris, you know, unhinged now. |
| 0:15.0 | Apparently, the fact that officials were preparing for a no-deal Brexit |
| 0:19.0 | meant they were too busy to prepare for a pandemic. |
| 0:23.0 | Whatever the actual final outcome of the war, the Ukrainians will cry betrayal. |
| 0:27.0 | Two. |
| 0:29.0 | I do think now there's going to be a hell of a ding-dong in the next few weeks. |
| 0:33.0 | We've got two biolections coming up. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-of-podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello. |
| 0:48.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:50.0 | The summer's silly season isn't yet upon us. |
| 0:53.0 | But already, British politics has descended into circus mode. |
| 0:57.0 | The Commons privileges committee has censored Boris Johnson to such an extent |
| 1:01.0 | that the former Prime Minister resigned before the committee's report had even been published. |
| 1:06.0 | That was amidst a bizarre route between Johnson and his former protégé Rishi Sunak |
| 1:11.0 | over Bojo's resignation on his list, with top tauties rowing over who gets an income for life's seat in the Lords |
| 1:18.0 | while much of the country, hammered by an ongoing cost of living crisis, looks on a ghast. |
| 1:24.0 | Talking of which, inflation in the US Alison just felt of 4% less than half |
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