Matt Hancock: What is it about politicians and reality TV?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood gets the temperature in Westminster with Sky News' chief political correspondent Jon Craig and speaks to former MP and I'm A Celebrity contestant, Lembit Opik, about the pros and cons of doing reality TV as a politician.
Podcast producer - Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer – Alys Bowen
Digital producer - Emma-Rae Woodhouse
Editors - Philly Beaumont & Paul Stanworth
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| 0:00.0 | Uber drivers. Have you seen your pay go down while your fees to Uber go up? |
| 0:05.0 | All because of an algorithm that reduces your take-home pay, making you work more for less. |
| 0:10.0 | We believe Uber's dynamic pay and upfront pricing is unfair. |
| 0:14.0 | That's why Worker Info Exchange has launched the dynamic pay claim to seek compensation for drivers who have lost income. |
| 0:21.5 | If you've driven for Uber at any time since 2020, it's time to stand together. |
| 0:26.8 | Find out more at dynamic pay.org. |
| 0:30.1 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:34.4 | Fine, she'd say. She clearly wasn't. |
| 0:42.3 | After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:49.8 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. Can't get a word in. |
| 0:55.0 | Give your skills new life. |
| 0:56.6 | Train others. |
| 0:57.7 | Search jobs in further education. |
| 1:03.5 | Ed Balls, former Shadow Chancellor, danced Gangnam style live on Saturday Night TV. |
| 1:08.7 | The thing about Strickley is it is a performance. |
| 1:10.9 | Penny Mordant back flipped from a seven and a half metre diving board |
| 1:14.6 | as a backbench MP long before she made a run for number 10. |
| 1:18.4 | It is completely terrifying the whole process. |
| 1:21.4 | Former Scottish labour leader Keziah Dugdale found herself crawling through a tank of fish guts |
| 1:26.2 | labelled sickle of sturgeon on IMA's |
| 1:28.8 | celebrity. |
| 1:29.5 | It's not fair if she just can't find it. |
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