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Politics Unpacked

Off The Record

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley reveals what's really happening inside the Tory party as he plays out off-the-record texts from Conservative MPs, voiced by actors. He and The Times' Political Editor Steven Swinford analyse and The Times' former Political Editor Phil Webster puts them into historical context.


PLUS: Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester discuss the plot to oust Boris Johnson and the value of an English Literature degree.



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0:37.6

I always Johnson is facing more questions about his future. Tory MP is still not happy.

0:41.9

Whether we can, the Prime Minister's last Bob Apportison Rwanda, whether we'd like to

0:45.2

serve a full second term as Prime Minister, he replied at the moment, I'm thinking actively

0:49.6

about the third. And you know what could happen then, but I'll review it when I get to it,

0:53.7

all the way into the 2030s. A humorous deflection or a humoristic joke,

0:59.6

it's a little bit like when Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair vowed to go on and on and on and on.

1:04.0

Well, I've been speaking to Tory MPs from across the country and across the party spectrum

1:08.8

over the weekend, because that's all I like to have fun. About the Prime Minister's prospect,

1:12.1

we'll bring you the private off the record thoughts of Tory MPs and ask, is there any prospects

1:18.0

of rebels winning? They say try to force out Boris Johnson over and over and over again.

1:23.9

So that's coming up and our big things in just a moment. First, as ever, we kick off with

1:27.2

our columnist panel and on a Monday, it's Libby Rachel, Libby Pervis and Rachel Vester.

1:32.2

The columnist would Libby Rachel, Libby Pervis and Rachel Sylvester on Times Radio.

1:39.7

Yes, it's that time. I was speaking to two of our favourite columnists on a Monday. It is, of course,

1:44.4

Libby Rachel, morning Libby. Morning. Morning to Rachel, morning Rachel. Morning.

1:50.6

Now, we're going to start off by talking about the Tory party. We're going to do it a bit

1:54.5

more a bit later on when we find out what Tory MPs of the record think. It feels like we're sort of

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