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Politics Unpacked

PMQs: Poor Phil

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer has met a supermarket worker called Phil who is struggling with his mortgage. Rishi Sunak says Phil will pay more in taxes under Labour. But where is Phil?


Matt is joined by Times Policy Editor Oliver Wright and Red Box Editor Lara Spirit to pause and unpack the exchanges at PMQs.


Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and James Kirkup discuss Nicola Sturgeon in front of the Covid inquiry, why the government should care about our teeth, and why wild weeing has to stop.


Columnist Panel (04:32)

PMQs Unpacked (24:20)


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1:15.2

No Tim Shippman this week so instead we are joined by longtime Westminster

1:20.6

Watcher. He's probably seen more PMQ's even than me and Times Policy

1:24.5

editor Oliver Wright joins me to pause the action live from the House of Commons to

1:28.4

analyze the key exchanges in real time. Lara Spirit rounds up the best of the

1:32.4

rest. The other big political story unfolded today was Nicholas

1:34.9

Sturgeon at the COVID inquiry. We'll chew over that with the columnist Alice Thompson and today

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