Penny Mordaunt on Omicron hysteria, rebel MPs and Brexit
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Minister for Trade Penny Mordaunt beams into the Planet Normal rocket from Atlanta, Georgia, in the week where Boris Johnson suffered the most bruising rebellion of his premiership. Over 100 of her Conservative colleagues voted against his plans for Covid passports. The former Cabinet minister tells Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan why, and brings listeners the inside track on trade negotiations in post-Brexit Britain.
Plus, Liam tells us why he's concerned we're seeing 'lockdown by stealth', Allison calls for the NHS to channel the vigour of the national booster campaign into testing for other diseases, and our co-pilots take a dive into 70s nostalgia - space hoppers and all.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | If I die, sitting in my car, |
| 0:13.0 | because I'm a middle-aged man and I have a heart attack, |
| 0:16.0 | I've died with my car. |
| 0:18.0 | But I haven't died because of my car, have I? |
| 0:21.0 | Four. |
| 0:22.0 | I am not going to become a cash cow for Pfizer. |
| 0:25.0 | I will not. |
| 0:26.0 | Brexit is not an event to be to be mourned by the international community. |
| 0:33.0 | I think Penny Mordent could be a dark horse or a flicky palamineopony. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:51.0 | Hello. |
| 0:52.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:54.0 | Over a quarter of Tory MPs openly defied the Prime Minister this week |
| 0:59.0 | as more than 100 government backbenchers opposed key parts of Boris Johnson's plan B |
| 1:04.0 | for dealing with Covid infections this winter. |
| 1:07.0 | The biggest rebellion since the 2019 general election |
| 1:11.0 | saw countless Tories reject the reintroduction of Covid certificates |
| 1:15.0 | for nightclubs and large events in England. |
| 1:17.0 | The measures went through on the back of Labour support. |
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