My Kingdom for a Dom
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🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian, Ailbhe Rea and Patrick Maguire discuss the story that dominated the bank holiday weekend: Dominic Cummings and his trip to Durham. Then, in You Ask Us, they talk about their experiences in the manufactured world of political punditry.
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| 1:14.4 | Alvaray and Patrick McGuire to discuss the latest in the Dominic Cummings route and what the |
| 1:18.7 | implications will be and you ask us what's it like when you're faced with a political opponent on TV. |
| 1:24.5 | So we're recording on a Tuesday afternoon after an extraordinary bank holiday weekend and the main story from that weekend of |
| 1:36.5 | Dominic Cummings' trip to Durham during lockdown is still topping the news agenda. The main sort of points of interest over the |
| 1:46.6 | weekend were Boris Johnson backing him and Dominic Cummings then doing his own press conference on a Monday afternoon, |
| 1:55.0 | defending his actions and laying out in great detail what he'd done and what he hadn't done |
| 1:59.3 | when and getting a grilling from journalists in the Downing Street number 10 garden. |
| 2:05.0 | Stephen you were sort of covering every twist and turn of this. |
| 2:08.0 | What did you make of it and did you change your mind about what kind of story this was |
| 2:12.3 | as it was unfolding. |
| 2:13.4 | Yes, I did change my mind. I mean, so I guess I knew at the start of this story that I was |
| 2:19.3 | hashtag out of touch, right? I mean, then I felt very sympathetic to the case for keeping |
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