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Politics Unpacked

PMQs Unpacked 09-02-22

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley and Chief Political Commentator of the Sunday Times Tim Shipman pause the action to analyse the exchanges between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions.


PLUS Alibert: Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss heshuffle, teachers and farmers.



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0:00.0

Hello, this is the Redbox Podcast. I'm Matt Shirley coming up on today's episode. It's Wednesday, so it must be PMQ's unpacked,

0:12.9

Tim Shipman and I, Paul's action live from the House of Commerce to analysing real-time what's going on

0:18.1

between Bolsheets Johnson and Kiss. And don't forget, you can not just listen along live on Times Ready,

0:22.8

you can watch along live on the Times Radio YouTube channel. So have your lunch a bit early,

0:27.4

12 o'clock on a Wednesday, and you can watch us as we pause the comments action. Just go to the Times

0:32.8

Radio YouTube channel. That's coming up in a moment. First, as ever we kick off with our

0:36.8

columnist panel and on a Wednesday, it is Alibert, it's Alice Thompson and Robert Krampton.

0:46.8

So should we talk about, I hate it, but people are calling it the he's shuffle.

0:52.6

Because there was a reshuffle that mainly involved men. It's raining men,

0:56.3

someone said. What do you make of the reshuffle, Robert? I assume you've thought of little else.

1:01.1

Yeah, it's, yeah, it kept me awake most of the night. Updating your wall chart.

1:05.5

Is this guy called Spencer? Spencer, yeah. I mean, I'd sort of like to think I know.

1:10.0

Mark Spencer, I keep an interest, but they're kind of scraping the barrel now, aren't they?

1:14.1

So Mark Spencer's got a different job. Yeah. He's leader of the commons. Now leader of the commons,

1:18.9

yeah, and Mog's gone to cheer about Brexit. Yeah, Brexit opportunities. Yeah.

1:25.1

Well, I think I'm, I've used, I used to phrase deck chairs in the Titanic on Monday,

1:28.8

so I think I might go for circling the wagons today, because that's what it looks like.

1:32.7

He liked the loyal few voices last turn. Just moves them all around.

1:36.9

Just moves them all around a bit. It's somehow. I remember Ed Milibad had one like this,

1:40.8

when he had a ruthless reshuffle, I mean, yeah, everyone got promoted.

1:44.2

No, yeah, nobody gets sucked. I mean, the point about a reshuffle is somebody gets sacked.

1:47.6

Yeah. And he can't afford that. He can't afford to do that, because he's not running out of

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