New Year, Old Scandals
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It’s business as usual this week as the rocket launches back into action after its Christmas hiatus. And your co-pilots are not short of opinions on the latest scandal.
The political and media class are finally waking up to the Post Office Scandal, drawn attention to by the airing of a recent ITV drama and your co-pilots are naturally incensed at the rife injustice of the situation.
Allison questions if this could be the UK’s Watergate moment whilst Liam thinks that it's worse because this scandal involves punishing innocent people who don't have the means to defend themselves.
Also joining your co-pilots on their first voyage of the year is Deputy leader of political party Reform UK, Ben Habib, who shares his concerns for a Labour victory at the next general election and where he thinks it all went wrong for the current Conservative Party.
And co-pilot Pearson shares her New Year’s resolutions, but has she been keeping to them?
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 Allison: ‘The Post Office scandal has exposed Britain as a hotbed of cronyism and corruption: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/01/09/post-office-scandal-mr-bates-horizon-paula-vennell/ |
Read Liam: ‘The Tories have failed to address one of the biggest scandals in the City’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/17/tories-failed-address-biggest-city-london-scandals/ |
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| 0:00.0 | 5. |
| 0:03.0 | Come to Planet Normal for Attitude not allowed in the workplace since 1978. |
| 0:08.0 | 4. |
| 0:10.0 | There is no political party other than Reform UK that actually stands to make policy for |
| 0:16.4 | British national interests and with the interests of British people in mind. This now is looking potentially like Britain's Watergate. |
| 0:27.0 | My hearting shot is this, Sir Alan Bates. Go on Rishi do it. Do it. |
| 0:33.0 | One. |
| 0:34.0 | We have lift off. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Allison Pearson. |
| 0:43.2 | Happy New Year and me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:46.1 | It is 2024, the British workforce, what's left of it, is back at work and the kids are back |
| 0:51.1 | at school. |
| 0:52.1 | And after our Christmas break during which Allison ate too much cake. We'll hear more about that later. |
| 0:57.0 | Your loyal co-pilots are here to relaunch the planet normal rocket of right thinking. |
| 1:02.0 | Your sanctuary of sweet reason your |
| 1:03.9 | flying refuge of reasoned views and just in time because politics has started |
| 1:09.2 | this year with a bang as Tory Green campaign a Chris Skidmore resigned sparking yet another awkward by election for his former party. |
| 1:17.0 | And if that wasn't enough, Rissi Sunak faces the prospect of getting its Rwanda legislation |
| 1:22.0 | designed to tackle the small boats crisis through the House of Commons. |
| 1:25.4 | This could prove tricky to say the least. Given the divisions on his own backbenches, |
| 1:29.8 | those Tory tribes gearing up once again for rhetorical war. |
| 1:35.0 | And aside from all that, we need to talk about the post office and the Horizon scandal, |
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