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🗓️ 17 March 2022
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Christopher Hope escapes the Red Lion to join Conservative Party Co-Chair Oliver Dowden for a tea and salt beef sandwich in his constituency. The former Culture Secretary claims that he wants to see 'genuine diversity' in the new Tory candidates list - and why he doesn't see that goal as 'woke'. Plus he'll put his foot down on raising taxes, and takes Chris on a trip to his childhood home.
Also on the podcast: Lesia Vasylenko on what she's pitching to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as part of a small group of Ukrainian MPs in London.
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0:00.0 | Coming up on Chopper's politics. |
0:05.0 | Are those talks going well within Russia and Ukraine? |
0:09.0 | The talks within Russia and Ukraine are impossible. |
0:12.8 | I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics and this is Chopper's |
0:21.2 | Politics. The assault on Ukraine continues and the country's |
0:26.0 | politicians along with their leader Vladimir's Lensky are continuing their calls |
0:30.4 | for Western governments to do more to protect their country from Putin's forces. |
0:35.7 | This week a group of Ukrainian MPs travel to Westminster for talks with their British counterparts, |
0:42.0 | something they would have had to have got permission for from their leader, |
0:45.2 | as leaving their country, even as a politician, is currently a crime for those able to fight the Russians. One of those briefly in London is Lesier Vazelenko, |
0:56.2 | a member of the Ukrainian Opposition Party and co-chairman of the UK-Ukraine Friendship Group. |
1:03.0 | Lessier, welcome to the Red Lion Pub. |
1:05.0 | Thank you for joining us this week on Chobos Politics. |
1:08.0 | You've got a big day meeting all sorts of important politicians, |
1:11.0 | not least our Prime Minister Boris Johnson. |
1:14.0 | When you see him, what would you say to him? |
1:17.0 | That we need a no-fly zone over Ukraine and that we need to run up the support. |
1:21.0 | And if it's not within the given frameworks that exist in the world today |
1:25.3 | then it's high time that the UK takes a lead on an anti- Putin coalition. |
1:31.4 | You see why Boris Johnson hasn't been unable to enforce a no-fly zone because they don't want to put |
1:36.3 | NATO troops in direct action with Russian planes or troops. |
1:42.0 | So again, there's an option out of it to follow the UN Charter |
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