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Politics Unpacked

PMQs Unpacked 26-5-21

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Times columnist Robert Crampton and John Stevens from the Daily Mail pick over the day's news. Then Matt Chorley and Red Box Editor Patrick Maguire pause the action at Prime Minister's Questions to explain the Commons exchanges between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer

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1:01.6

Slash Change Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Sholly. What a day. Have you got any popcorn left?

1:23.5

I'm of course talking about PMQs and there's this other thing before PMQs, this guy that was talking

1:28.1

we'll probably touch on that in a sec. PMQs unpacked Boris Johnson versus Kirst. I'm a

1:34.5

Patrick McGuire joining me this week to unpick exactly how Boris Johnson reacted to those extraordinary

1:41.4

claims from Dominic Cummings. That's coming up next. First, our connoisse panel. No, Alice Thompson

1:46.3

today. Today her role will be taken by John Stephenson, the Daily Mail. So it's John Stephenson and Robert

1:51.0

Clampton.

2:05.0

First of all, in a sentence, your initial thoughts so far, Robert Clampton?

2:10.9

Well, I thought it started quite slowly and now he's warming up with the Hancock thing and

2:16.0

I think he just mentioned Trump and the CIA which is pretty tasty. To begin with, I thought he'd come

2:24.0

to Barry Boris and he's actually burying himself and keeps apologising. I mean, I think you know,

2:29.9

he kind of speaks well of him in a way but it was more about general incompetence and chaos and

2:37.9

his own failings and everybody's failings. But now he's getting into the specifics of it a bit more.

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