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Politics Unpacked

PMQs Unpacked: Arise, Sir Softy

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer trade personal attacks over crime at Prime Minister's Questions, as Sunak dubs Starmer 'Sir Softy'. Matt is joined by Tim Shipman, Lucy Fisher and Lara Spirit to pause and unpack the action.


Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss disruptive protests, how to live well, Michael Gove's cigarette shed, and what's the first cassette tape they ever bought?



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0:00.0

Hello, this is the Webbox Podcast, I'm Matt Shawley bringing the best of my times

0:07.0

video showed, don't forget you can listen to live and for free on your DAB radio, on

0:10.5

your smart speaker, or download the Times Radio app so there's no excuse for not listening

0:15.3

all the time, but you'll listen to the podcast, so that's good.

0:18.0

Coming up on today's episode is Wednesday, so it must be PMQ's Unpacked A Special Edition

0:23.0

as Lucy Fisher leaves us on Times Radio, she joins me and Tim Shipman to pause the action

0:27.8

live in the House of Commons, so that's coming up in just a moment but first is the Colourists.

0:36.1

The Colourmists with Aliburth, Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton on Times Radio, we say

0:43.2

very good morning to Alice Thompson, morning Alice, good morning to Robert, are you laughing

0:48.6

at Alibur again?

0:49.6

It is the best name you have to say.

0:51.1

Well I just catch Alice's eye and she laughs and I laugh and then we both laugh and then

0:54.4

you'll have a little chat.

0:55.4

I'll be on a mixtape, shouldn't we really?

0:57.4

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:58.4

Well we'll talk about those here in a minute, first let's talk Protestus, 1400, a specific

1:04.9

number at this stage, maybe this was booked a number of buses, 1400 anti-monicist protestors

1:10.3

are planning to chant not my king at the culmination next month, comparing Contrast that with

1:15.1

just stop oil saying they got to send around 30,000 people to the London Railathon and then

1:21.2

they also just swept the snooker and then we have people with national ground national

1:25.8

as well.

1:26.8

What's a good protest, a bad protest Alice?

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