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Politics Unpacked

PMQs Unpacked 09-03-2022

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley and the Times' Red Box Editor Patrick Maguire pause the action to analyse the exchanges between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions.


PLUS: Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss the role of women in the conflict and future jobs for John Bercow.



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0:00.0

Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt Jolly. Don't forget, on Friday we'll have

0:09.3

part three of our new series. The Sunday shows at 50 this week, it's on the record. Jonathan

0:15.7

Dimblebee, John Humphreys, David O'One of which, Tony Blair, if you remember it, you'll

0:21.4

remember the crocodile. We'll talk about the crocodile two from the on the record opening

0:24.9

credits. That's part three of our series. The Sunday shows at 50. You can go back and find

0:29.9

parts one and two weekend world and breakfast with Fost, just scroll back through your your

0:35.2

Red Box Podcast feet. Right, coming up on today's episode, it's Wednesday, so it must be

0:40.4

PMQ's unpacked. Patrick McGuire joined me to pause the action live from the House of Commons

0:45.0

to analyse it in real time, the exchanges between Kiss, Starmer and Bob Johnson. That's coming

0:48.8

up in just a moment. But first, as ever, we kick off with our Columnist panel on a Wednesday.

0:53.0

It is Alibert. It is Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton.

1:00.0

Let's talk about, I mean, it is Ukraine, but your Columnist, I Alice, because we've

1:08.4

been talking particularly about the role of women in the conflict.

1:11.7

Well, it's rather extraordinary with the Ukrainian women because I think women have always

1:15.8

fought more and they've been forced to, but not in the numbers that they are on our

1:20.4

doing in Ukraine, and they're two million more women than men in Ukraine. So it really

1:24.1

makes a difference. So what was amazed by that? Yes, I couldn't quite work out how that

1:28.0

would happen, but it's true, and it was actually the President's wife. Yes, the men are

1:33.1

working abroad, presumably. Oh, yeah, maybe. Yes, I think some of them. So Elena Zelensky

1:37.1

said it, the President's wife is rather, she's gathered all these women together and they've

1:40.0

got the most phenomenally tough outlook these women, and they post these incredible images

1:45.8

of themselves with their collection of and standing there and threatening and talking about

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