Nothing as Ex as an Ex-MP
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
After more Conservative MPs announce they will stand down at the next election, Matt Chorley asks Lucy Fisher and Matthew Parris if it could turn into an exodus. He also hears from former MPs Gyles Brandreth and Edwina Currie, who talks about her later career as a novelist.
Plus columnists James Marriott and Manveen Rana on immigration, energy saving, artificial intelligence and what happened when a minister sent the wrong recorded message to a conference.
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| 1:21.6 | So you know what I mean, like a nice jingle, bit Christmas-y, maturely, on-times radio, 10-till-one, |
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| 1:30.5 | Right, coming up on today's episode then, I think to keep an eye out for the next couple of weeks, |
| 1:34.6 | the big Tory Exodus. Tory MPs have been given until December the 5th to say whether or not they're |
| 1:40.0 | going to stand again. Some of them might just quit a bit later on. But we're predicting a |
| 1:45.1 | big Exodus, and many is 80 some say. So really fascinating, big thing coming up today. We've |
| 1:49.6 | got Lucy Fisher, Matthew Paris, former Tom Reamp, Times columnist. We've got Dips of the Archive |
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