PMQs Unpacked: Peer Pressure
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer takes aim at Rishi Sunak over Boris Johnson's resignation honours list, while Sunak attacks Labour for picking peers like Tom Watson.
Matt, Tim Shipman, Isabel Hardman and Patrick Maguire pause and unpack the exchanges from the House of Commons.
Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss whether being in the Lords is all it's cracked up to be, whether abortion laws are fit for purpose and as a council moves to ban ice-cream vans, Robert tells his best ice cream joke.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Redbox Podcast. I'm Matt Chorley, being the rest of my times ready |
| 0:07.5 | to show Monday, Friday, 10 till 1, you can listen live, all your DB radio on your smart |
| 0:11.8 | speaker on the Times radio app. Lots of you have been getting in touch about the podcast |
| 0:15.5 | lately, which is nice, do feel free to tweet, act, Matt Chorley, or you can email me, Matt |
| 0:19.7 | at Times.Vedient. Right, coming up as ever, it's Wednesday, |
| 0:22.4 | so PMQ's on Pats is on its way. Isabel Hardman from the spectator joins Tim Shippen |
| 0:27.0 | and I, to pause the action from the House of Commons to analyse the key exchanges and |
| 0:30.9 | real time, that's coming up in just a moment. But first, we better take a look at the news |
| 0:34.5 | with these two. |
| 0:39.5 | The columnists with Alibert, Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton on Times radio. And they're |
| 0:47.0 | both here. Morning Alex. Morning, I'm very upset that I haven't got a cupcake and you |
| 0:50.9 | do have. Well, that's because I went to the canteen and |
| 0:53.7 | they're giving them away free. Yeah, so there's a hundred years of Judith Kerr off of the |
| 0:57.9 | title of came to tea. Yeah. It was published by Robert Collins within this period. So, |
| 1:01.7 | yeah, if you go to the canteen, get yourself a cup of tea, you think you have your free |
| 1:04.1 | cake, but the time that came is to tell you on it. To use your word, you've been in the |
| 1:07.6 | canteen. I've been working. I've been working. I just went to get a coffee before I came |
| 1:11.2 | here. Yeah. And I cigarette. Yeah. No, I didn't. I just forget. Oh. |
| 1:14.4 | Faffing around. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, that's the power of Times radio. You just say |
| 1:21.7 | something like that in a cake. You just even want it. I've already offered you my |
| 1:24.3 | juice. It's the best use of executive juice around juice time, running around with |
| 1:28.5 | buns. There you are. I can now eat it in peace. |
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