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Politics Unpacked

PMQs Unpacked 16-6-21

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

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


PLUS


Times Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss Tory lockdown rebels and compulsory vaccinations. 



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1:01.5

Slash Change.

1:18.2

Hello, what's the Red Box podcast? I'm Matt Julie. It's Wednesdays, so it must be PMQ's

1:22.8

unpacked. It's a big one. Just before PMQ's started Dominic Cummings released a WhatsApp message

1:30.0

from Boris Johnson, in which he described Matt Hancock as totally effing hopeless. He didn't

1:37.2

use word effect. It was a slightly stronger language than that. Will Keir Starmer raise it at PMQ's?

1:42.4

Will he sock it to the Prime Minister? Humiliating him in front of everyone. What do you think?

1:47.0

You can find out with Tim Shipman and I. Paul's The Action Life in the House of Commons and PMQ's

1:51.0

unpacked. Next, first, it's our columnist panel. It's Wednesdays, it must be cramp on.

1:55.6

It's Robert Crampton and Alice Thompson.

2:04.9

So, Alice, let's start with your column in the Times today, which is all about how we're just

2:09.6

not ready for post lockdown life. So my surprise here was the fact that we, if you look at all the

2:16.9

press and you look at the Tory bat bench MPs, you feel that no one wants the extension to this

2:22.2

lockdown. But if you look at the polling, 71% of people actually agree with Boris. And that's what's

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