PMQs: Dover And Out
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Matt Chorley and Patrick Maguire pause and unpack the action from the Commons chamber, as Tory MP for Dover Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour moments before PMQs.
Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss never-ending Tory plots, whether the police do enough to tackle stalking, and whether cycling can be cool.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Mac Jolly, and this is Politics Without The Boring Bits. |
| 0:07.2 | Coming up on today's episode, it's a Wednesday, so it must be PMQ's unpatch. |
| 0:10.8 | Patrick McGuire joins me this week to pause the action from the House of Commons to analyze the key exchanges |
| 0:15.7 | between Rishy Sinac and Kirstarma in real-time Lira Spiit rounds up the best of the rest. |
| 0:21.0 | Before that, in the columnist Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton on |
| 0:24.5 | is this what it looks like when the rebels stop plotting against Ritchie Sunak because it still looks |
| 0:30.7 | quite plotty. And if you like what you're here on the podcast, |
| 0:33.1 | don't forget you can join me for politics out the board of |
| 0:35.2 | bits, live on times radio, on your dab radio, on your smart speaker |
| 0:38.4 | or download the times radio app. |
| 0:40.2 | It's politics without the boardimits, weekdays from 10. |
| 0:43.0 | Now, remember this? |
| 0:48.0 | We need a popular conservative movement. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, well, last night Liz trust took part in an online pop conversation |
| 0:55.8 | to talk about how popular it all is. |
| 0:59.4 | Come on to Pisko this morning, Mark Littlewood was hosting it, voted at one point, more than 200 people |
| 1:07.1 | had joined over the course of the hour. |
| 1:10.7 | I mean that really is a popular conservative movement although although I know |
| 1:15.3 | Liz feels not feeling very popular this morning not winning at the armies last night the |
| 1:18.6 | radio Oscars I mean obviously we don't do it for the baubles we don't do it for the balls is lucky because we've got any balls |
| 1:24.0 | the columnist Thompson and Robert Crampton |
| 1:30.1 | and they're both here in blue are Are you actually doing this on purpose? |
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