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Politics Unpacked

No Confidence

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley speaks to the Deputy Leader and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab and now the former anti-corruption tzar John Penrose on whether or not Boris Johnson should be removed from No 10. We also take a look back through the archive when other Prime Ministers were removed from office, with memories from Michael Heseltine, John Whittingdale, Baroness Bertin and many more.


Plus Carol Lewis and Rachel Sylvester discuss secret house sales and working a four day week.



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0:00.0

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0:30.8

Hello, this is the Redbox Podcast. I'm Matt Shorty. Not enough letters of complaints sent

0:39.9

about me last week, so boo and cheer as I climb the steps of news. The cathedral that is

0:45.7

the Redbox Podcast. Thanks to Cal Walker and Patrick McGuire for holding the fault last week.

0:50.1

Luckily all the big news is happening when I'm back. Normally it happens when I'm off.

0:53.9

So early Tuesday morning we got the news that a vote of confidence was going to be held in

0:58.6

Boris Johnson's leadership after that threshold of 54 letters of no confidence was breached.

1:04.8

So coming up on today's podcast, we look back on previous attempts to remove conservative

1:09.4

prime ministers, Markets Hatcher, David Cameron and Theresa May, hearing from some people who are in

1:14.7

the room at the time. On the podcast you'll also hear from Dominic Rab, the deputy prime minister,

1:20.4

on why he's standing by Boris Johnson. In fact, even now thinks that Boris Johnson's doing a better

1:25.3

job than he'd have managed if he'd beaten him with the tutorial leadership back in 2019

1:29.1

and will hear from John Penrose, the conservative MP who quit as Boris Johnson's anti-corruption

1:34.5

czar claiming the prime minister had broken the ministerial code. So all that is coming up on

1:38.9

the podcast in just a moment. First, as ever, we kick off with our columnist panel and today

1:43.7

it's Rachel Investor and Cowell Lewis.

1:49.8

The columnist on time's radio.

1:54.9

You're on a Monday, we normally hear from a Libby Rachel, but no Libby Poverts today,

1:58.3

but we do have Rachel Investor. Morning, Rachel. Morning. And joining us is Cowell Lewis. Morning,

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