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Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
After former cabinet minister Simon Clarke calls on Rishi Sunak to resign, Keir Starmer gets away with swearing about Tory in-fighting and Rishi Sunak calls him a "human weathervane".
Matt pauses and unpacks the action from Prime Minister's Questions with Patrick Maguire and Lara Spirit, and reads out some texts from Conservative MPs.
Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss the backlash against Simon Clarke, Britain's disappearing public toilets, and why Robert really likes dressing up.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Jolly. This is Politics Without the Boring Bits. |
| 0:07.8 | Coming up on today's episode, A Must Listen edition of PMQ's Unacked. Are we due another Prime Minister? |
| 0:15.2 | Simon Clark seems to think so. How did Ritchie soon act get on? What to kiss |
| 0:19.4 | Dama make of it all? Patrick McGuire joins us while Tim Chibbon has a lie down and |
| 0:24.3 | tries to work out how he's ever gonna finish his books. |
| 0:26.5 | So Patrick McGuire joins me to pause the action live from the House of Commons |
| 0:29.6 | to analyze the key exchanges in real time. |
| 0:31.4 | In Lara's spirit rounds up the best of the rest |
| 0:33.7 | so that you don't have to sit through that's coming up in our big thing. |
| 0:37.0 | Before that as it's Wednesday we'll have Alibet, Alice Thompson and Robert |
| 0:40.6 | Crapton on whether the Tories have lost their minds and should we lose the daily post. |
| 0:46.5 | And don't forget if you like what you're here on the podcast, you can always listen to me live on |
| 0:51.1 | times ready with politics without the boring bits for free on your DAB radio, |
| 0:55.3 | on your smart speaker or download the Times Radio app. |
| 0:58.1 | That's Politics Without the Boring Bits Weekdays from 10. |
| 1:17.2 | And we begin with Simon Clark's got a while since we've had a new Prime Minister so maybe |
| 1:23.6 | Simon Clark's got a point maybe we are due a new one. Simon Clark |
| 1:27.2 | calling for us she soon had to go to try and turn things around. Well when |
| 1:29.8 | the news broke my what's appsups lit up with messages from MPs and ministers because |
| 1:36.9 | unlike the Scottish government where... What's-ap deletion is a pre-bed ritual? I kept mine before I went to bed last night. So what I thought |
| 1:45.1 | to do is just walk you through some of the WhatsApp's I've had overnight from various toys |
| 1:51.6 | about the idea from Simon Clark that things would be better if |
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