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🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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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 Carol Lewis discuss why Penny Mordaunt is popular and why politicians need to target the young.
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0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic, book your train |
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0:30.3 | Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt Chauley. We begin with an apology. Now, you know you |
0:42.3 | can trust me. You know that I'm a man of my word, but I've let you down. I've let myself down. |
0:49.0 | I've let the country down. And if it gets much hotter, I'm going to let my trousers down. |
0:53.1 | Earlier this week, I launched my campaign videos, setting out my priorities, my vision, my values, |
0:59.3 | my words, my pictures, and my face. However, I, sorry, we made a mistake. |
1:08.2 | The Britain of fry-ups, even ones which have chips, the Britain of replacement bus services, |
1:15.9 | the Britain of awkwardly smiling at someone in a sauna, Stonehenge, the summer's that |
1:22.5 | shoe museum. It is since come to my, sorry, hour attention. They, in fact, the Somerset shoe museum |
1:32.1 | closed in 2019. Now, this is a terrible flip-flop, but after a lot of soul searching, |
1:39.8 | I believe that we can come together and heal. I'm sure my rivals will want to put the boot in. |
1:46.1 | I just asked them to walk a mile in my shoe museum. |
1:51.4 | And today, I can announce my new campaign anthem. |
1:54.4 | All right, there we are, then. Got that out of the way. We fight on. We fight on. We're |
2:15.2 | through to the next round. Still got more views on my video than it seems, are we? |
2:19.0 | So my campaign's going very well. Today, we had the leadership launch of Penny Mordert, |
2:25.3 | so we can dip into that. Recently, I think our party has lost its sense of self. |
2:32.8 | If I can compare it to being in the glass of the audience when Paul McCartney was playing his set, |
2:39.6 | we indulged all those new tunes, but what we really wanted was the good old stuff that we all |
2:45.2 | knew the words to. We need to get back to that, because we've got some really serious challenges. |
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