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Politics Unpacked

PMQs Unpacked 14-07-21

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

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


PLUS Angela Epstein and Andy Silvester discuss how much personal responsibility should we have, and at what point do we stop needing rules?



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1:40.0

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chawley coming up. It's Wednesday, so it must be PMQ's unpacked.

1:46.0

Patrick McGuire and I paused the action live from the House of Commons as Keir Starmer challenges Boris Johnson overtaking the knee, racism, football, and a little bit of Northern Ireland too.

1:55.0

So that's coming up. First, it's our columnist panel. It's Wednesday, so it must be cramp on Robert Crampton and Alice Thompson.

2:00.0

So Alice Thompson is off chasing beavers in Devon. I don't know if that's also what what the crampton's doing.

2:07.0

So instead, we've got Angela Epstein and Andy Sylvester.

2:20.0

So the thing I want to talk about rather than necessarily having a cultural on the merits of masks.

2:26.0

This concept of personal responsibility and where it sort of starts and ends and how even the idea of personal responsibility seems to have become a sort of a battle in its order.

2:38.0

It's completely mad. The Eddie Roger have personal responsibility.

2:42.0

You know, somebody we can't possibly trust people to do the right thing on coronavirus because one man put a flare up his backside outside Wembley.

2:50.0

And that proves that everyone, the entire general public, apart from me, obviously, with the entire general public, are more ones and they can't be trusted.

2:57.0

And we need rules constantly on how to rule live our lives. What do you think, Angela?

3:02.0

Where do we need to be more grown up about this concept of personal responsibility?

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