PMQs: New Year, New Nonsense
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It's the first PMQs of the new year, with Rishi Sunak announcing a plan to overturn wrongful convictions in the Post Office scandal and Keir Starmer accusing him of flip-flopping over the Rwanda policy.
Matt is joined by Tim Shipman and Lara Spirit to pause and unpack the exchanges from the Commons chamber.
Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss whether age matters in politics, why no one is talking about Covid being back, and why you should keep eating bread.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm actually. This is Politics Without the Boring Bits. |
| 0:08.0 | And a big episode for you today, the first PMQs unpacked of 2024 if you haven't heard it before. |
| 0:14.8 | We do PMQs a bit differently to everyone else instead of just leaving you to wade through |
| 0:19.5 | it and work out what is going on. |
| 0:21.6 | Tim Schittman for the Sunday Times joins me, |
| 0:23.2 | we pause the action, live from the Commons and analyze the key exchanges in real time. |
| 0:28.0 | Then Larra Spirit rounds up the best of the rest. The PMQ's unpat is coming up. |
| 0:32.0 | We'll also hear from The Economistists. It's Wednesday, so it must be Allebert, |
| 0:36.1 | Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton on why no one is talking about the fact that COVID is back. |
| 0:42.2 | And should we give up eating bread. |
| 0:44.7 | And if you like what you hear here on the podcast, don't forget you can listen to me live on Times |
| 0:48.7 | Radio with Politics without the boring bits for free on your DAB radio on your smart speaker or download the |
| 0:54.2 | Times Radio app that's Politics Without the Boing Bits on Times Radio weekdays from 10. Yeah, oh, talking teeth. We're talking teeth first. It was the Tory MP, |
| 1:11.1 | Sir Lane Saxby. |
| 1:12.1 | Whilst I recognize money does not grow on trees, neither do teeth. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, teeth don't grow on trees, thanks that. |
| 1:17.2 | That was Salane before Christmas. |
| 1:18.3 | Then yesterday, MPs spent the afternoon debating the nation's Nashas, leading to this treat from the health minister Andrea |
| 1:25.8 | ledson. In the opposition's proposal today they're talking about supervised |
| 1:30.2 | toothbrushing for three to five-year-olds. Now I don't know if they don't know this, but actually |
| 1:34.9 | you have teeth from before you're born. So if you don't get your supervised toothbrushing |
| 1:39.4 | until you're three at a minimum, that's about, your teeth are about four and a half years old |
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