Marathon of contrition
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It might be a marathon of contrition for our Prime Minister this week, but our co-pilots are making no apologies for their views on the Planet Normal rocket.
Both Allison and Liam can’t help but feel that the attacks on Boris Johnson over partygate are just parliamentary posturing, and show how unpleasant politics in the UK has become.
Allison thinks Sir Keir Starmer's assaults on the PM - invoking emotive stories of sacrifices made during lockdown - are 'entirely hypocritical', because Labour supported the measures and even demanded they go further.
Whilst Liam warns the opposition's continued focus on partygate might actually alienate voters who are more concerned with issues like the spiralling cost of living and Channel migrant crisis.
Also joining our co-pilots on the spaceship of sweet reason this week is Telegraph leader writer and columnist Tim Stanley, who tells our co-pilots why he feels the treatment of the Prime Minister shows we have hit a ‘new low in public life.’
Tim also shares why he found the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s controversial comments on the Home Office's Rwanda migrant plan ‘uncomfortable.’
And finally, Allison reveals her unlikely previous life as a Sunday school teacher.
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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 | We had Boris and me afternoon of 1200 apologies this week, quite excruciating. |
| 0:16.0 | Or... |
| 0:17.0 | I actually think that we've hit a new low in public life when it comes to the treatment of Boris Johnson. |
| 0:23.0 | Three. |
| 0:24.0 | Pretty Patel's plan to send illegal migrants to Rwanda. |
| 0:29.0 | Now that's polling very well, although not with the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
| 0:34.0 | You are most definitely off his Christmas card list, which probably means you're not going to heaven, |
| 0:39.0 | because you, Alison Pearson, are...ungodly. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello. |
| 0:55.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, Partygate rumbles on Alison. |
| 0:59.0 | With Boris Johnson facing a potentially knife edge vote in the Commons today, Thursday, |
| 1:04.0 | over whether he should be referred to a formal investigation by the Commons Privilege's Committee. |
| 1:09.0 | Some say it's all ancient history of us about nothing, a plot by lefty media types to oust the Conservative Government. |
| 1:16.0 | Yet this week we saw a former Tory chief, Wip No Less, stand up in the Commons. |
| 1:21.0 | He's a natural Johnson ally, and yet he declared that the Prime Minister is unfit for office and should resign. |
| 1:28.0 | Yes, there is heartfelt anger and upset about Partygate and rightly so, but surely many silent millions are sick of the parliamentary posturing, |
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