One cabinet, two prime ministers
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Who is in charge of cabinet now, with two prime ministers sitting around the table? And are they aligned on domestic, as well as foreign policy?
One day after Westminster was knocked off it’s feet by the reshuffle how is the move going down in the rest of the country. And what exactly IS a minister for common sense?
Later - those protests, the ceasefire and the Labour vote.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. Well, good morning, everyone. Welcome, especially a warm |
| 0:14.2 | welcome to those for whom it's their first cabinet and also welcome to those for whom it may not be |
| 0:18.9 | their first time. Lovely to have you, lovely to have you all here. |
| 0:22.9 | They say that in British Cabinet government, the Prime Minister is the first among equals. |
| 0:29.2 | Did he really feel like the first among equals today when sitting opposite him was someone |
| 0:35.0 | who had been Prime Minister for six years, been leader of the Conservative Party for 11, and had also won two general elections. |
| 0:43.4 | Rishi has won none so far. |
| 0:46.4 | There is so much still to unpick about that extraordinary appointment yesterday, David Cameron, Lord David Cameron, now Foreign Secretary, |
| 0:55.7 | but also all the ones who got away from us, Esther McVeigh, amongst others. |
| 1:00.5 | The Common Sense Minister. |
| 1:01.9 | The Common Sense Minister. |
| 1:03.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:09.0 | It's John. It's John. |
| 1:11.4 | It's Emily. |
| 1:12.1 | And it's Lewis. |
| 1:12.8 | And later in the show, we'll also be talking about something that we almost certainly would have been talking about more yesterday, were it not, for the upheavals in Westminster, which is the protest, the marches at the weekend, which I went along to. |
| 1:25.1 | And the extent to which Suella Braverman, as her critics claim, |
| 1:28.8 | did indeed make it worse than it should and ought to have been. |
| 1:32.5 | But we're going to start with what happened yesterday, or rather, what was already in place |
| 1:38.1 | almost a week ago. We've now learnt a little bit more about the timeline of that appointment. |
| 1:45.8 | And I understand that David Cameron was actually sort of with friends at drinks on the Tuesday night. The offer came |
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