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🗓️ 29 May 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Fiona Hamilton, The Times crime and security editor, on Sajid Javid trying to improve relations with the police after years of hostilities.
Lucy Fisher, The Times chief political correspondent, warns Theresa May has nowhere to hide from the Northern Ireland abortion debate.
And Matthew Moore, The Times media correspondent, on why Radio 2 listeners are revolting over efforts to end tackle its all-male daytime line-up.
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the Red Box politics podcast on the Times I'm |
| 0:28.2 | Matt Charlie on this week's episode Matt Moore the Times media correspondent |
| 0:31.7 | on the Trouble at Radio 2. |
| 0:33.8 | Fiona Hamilton, the Times Crime Editor on Crime Figures and what Sergeant Javid can do about |
| 0:38.8 | them. |
| 0:39.8 | But first, the Times Chief Political Correspondent Lucy Fisher, on Theresa May's Trouble with Northern Ireland. |
| 0:45.0 | The landslide vote in favour of amending abortion law in Ireland has prompted calls for change in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:50.0 | With Tory ministers and backbenchers backing calls for Westminster to intervene in the province, |
| 0:53.8 | Theresa May is on a collision course of the DUP, the party propping up her fragile government. |
| 0:59.2 | So this is interesting. When Theresa May, I don't like to laugh, but when she lost a majority in June last year, and then |
| 1:05.1 | had to rely on the support of 10 DUP MPs, it was thought at the time that the social reform |
| 1:12.1 | flashpoint would be on gay marriage and there was a lot of |
| 1:14.1 | reassurance to Ruth Davis and people like that there was going to be no |
| 1:17.8 | bad peddling and actually was going to pursue that in North Carolina and |
| 1:20.5 | actually because of what's happened in the UK |
| 1:24.1 | the referendum voted overwhelmingly for reform in Ireland this is suddenly in Theresa May |
| 1:29.6 | already quite full intro great a huge nightmare yes a nightmare. I think it's clear from the blanket calls across |
| 1:37.0 | the Commons from the Front Benches and Milton the Skills Minister was on the airwaves at the weekend saying she believed |
| 1:44.5 | that there was a significant majority in the Commons to change the law in Northern Ireland and |
| 1:49.3 | pointing out that of course traditionally votes on abortion like euthanasia and other matters of |
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