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Politics Unpacked

PMQs Unpacked: Concrete Chaos

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

Politics, News & Politics, News

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

It's the first PMQs clash between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer since Parliament returned from the summer break, and the exchanges are dominated by crumbling concrete in schools. Matt, Tim Shipman and Lara Spirit are back to pause, unpack and analyse the action from the Commons chamber.


Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss meeting politicians in real life, whether weight-loss drugs are the answer, and Keir Starmer's rural appeal.


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0:00.0

Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast, I'm Matt Cholie, bringing the best of my Times radio

0:08.2

show, you can listen live, Monday to Friday, 10 till 1, on your DAB radio, on your smart

0:13.5

speaker, on your Times radio app, if you just can't get enough politics without the boring

0:17.6

bits.

0:18.6

Coming up today, it's back for the first time, what's seven weeks PMQ's unpatriot turns.

0:23.5

Tim Shipman joins me to pause the action in real time, as Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak

0:29.6

go at it.

0:30.6

Yes, there was a lot of talk about concrete.

0:32.6

Lara Spirit round up the best of the best voice at a moment out the columnist panel, but

0:36.0

what we thought we'd do to mark what is an extraordinary anniversary is the every day

0:41.4

for the next 46 days we are going to prize open the door of what we like to call the Trust

0:48.5

then calendar.

0:59.5

So I can see Trees Coffee, the new Deputy Prime Minister, the first big decision she's

1:03.2

going to have to make, it's whether or not to go back indoors, she's consulting colleagues

1:07.4

at the moment.

1:08.4

Oh, Trees Coffee's ordered umbrellas, the umbrellas are coming out, the umbrellas are

1:12.8

coming out.

1:13.8

Oh, nice clear umbrellas, very nice.

1:18.8

Oh, now it is absolute, I think we look technical language, we absolutely f***ing

1:23.8

it down.

1:37.8

Oh, now it's got absolutely, it's coming back, this is actually ridiculous, how heavy it's

1:41.8

coming back.

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