Perverts, weirdos and by-elections
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The prospect of another by-election looms after Parliament's standards committee recommended an eight-week suspension of former Conservative whip, Chris Pincher.
If the name is familiar, it’s because he was arguably the one who sealed the fate of Boris Johnson and led ultimately to his resignation.
Today we discuss the ramifications of the sexual assault and we look at Keir Starmer's pledge to give working class kids better oracy skills.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. An important report has come out today about the behaviour |
| 0:16.0 | of one Conservative MP who is now leaving Parliament. This is Angela Rainer speaking about it on |
| 0:23.5 | LBC this morning. He shouldn't still be an MP and the Conservative Party a disgrace for allowing |
| 0:28.1 | it to continue. She's talking about Chris Pinscher, the man who groped two individuals at a private |
| 0:33.7 | members club just over a year ago. Compare and contrast her response to that of |
| 0:39.7 | one Boris Johnson when he was asked about the Chris Pinscher affair on another podcast earlier |
| 0:45.2 | this week. Would you ever listen to your colleagues a bit more when they conveyed their |
| 0:49.5 | unease over things like the Chris Pinscher affair, the Owen Patterson row, at what any of these turning points. |
| 0:59.1 | Well, forget snoring, forget boring. |
| 1:03.1 | This caused endless sleepless nights for Boris Johnson and ultimately brought him down. |
| 1:09.2 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:16.1 | The Newsagents. It's John. |
| 1:21.4 | It's Emily. And it's Lewis. And we are in Newsagents HQ. And later in the podcast, we're going to be talking about or a C, which I think is being able to speak out loud. And the idea that this should play a central part in kids' education |
| 1:31.1 | because with being able to communicate well, |
| 1:34.3 | comes confidence, comes ability, comes some of the ways and means to get on in life. |
| 1:42.6 | Excellent public speaking. |
| 1:43.8 | Thank you, Johnson. |
| 1:44.4 | Your oracy is superb. |
| 1:46.4 | I'm always... |
| 1:47.0 | We are in awe-racy of you. |
| 1:49.9 | I knew this was going to go horribly wrong. |
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