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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Penny for your thoughts? – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor and Gavin Esler

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week, could a backbench rebellion see Penny Mordaunt replace Rishi Sunak before the general election? As online conspiracies run rampant, how has the Royal Family fumbled the Kate Middleton situation? In international news, we look at Putin’s ‘landslide victory’ and what his win means for war with Ukraine. Finally we have the latest on the Israel/Hamas conflict as Netenyahu comes under fire from high profile US democrats.      Gavin Esler talks Ros Taylor through the biggest news stories to look out for this week.    • "Changing leaders again isn’t going to change much in the eyes of the British public." – Gavin Esler   • “It’s almost like the Conservative Party is braindead, but the rigour mortis hasn’t kicked in yet.” – Gavin Esler    Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast     Written and presented by Ros Taylor with Gavin Esler. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.    Instagram | Twitter  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

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Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker start your week you're need to know on news and politics. I'm Ros Taylor and joining me is Gavin S. and apprenticeship places this morning. He's had another bad week. The forore over Frank Hester's

1:25.7

10 million pound donations to the Conservatives and Hester's remark that Diane Abbott makes

1:30.9

you hate all black women hasn't gone away. The polls are even worse than they were before the budget.

1:37.6

I read yesterday Gavin that a vibe shift has taken place in fevered Tory minds and that they want Penny Mordent to become the new leader.

1:45.6

But apparently Grant Shaps also thinks he could unite the party.

1:49.5

What the hell's going on?

1:50.8

Is there no beginning to their talents I wonder I mean you know wouldn't you just like

1:56.1

to have one week in British politics when the government talks about us rather than

2:01.3

about themselves and I mean quite clearly they hate each other it's quite obvious

2:06.1

that they loathe each other it's also quite obvious that the problem isn't their

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