PMQs Unpacked: Speaking With One Voice
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Against the backdrop of the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the prime minister and Labour leader debate the global response and the impact on the streets of Britain. Matt is joined by Tim Shipman and Lara Spirit to pause and unpack the action.
PLUS: Robert Crampton and John Stevens discuss whether Westminster has a drinking problem, Robert's 30-year-old jokes, and whether there's any point in learning German.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. |
| 0:17.0 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:20.0 | This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does. |
| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:32.0 | This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. |
| 0:43.0 | SSE is investing over £9 million a day in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. |
| 0:50.0 | That includes transforming networks across the country to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage, and building the world's largest offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. |
| 1:09.0 | When complete, doggar bank will be capable of powering over six million homes a year with clean, renewable energy, a major step towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. |
| 1:22.0 | And all this is creating thousands of sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK. |
| 1:29.0 | Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com slash change. |
| 1:39.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. |
| 1:41.0 | I'm Matt Shawnee, being the best of my times radio show. |
| 1:43.0 | You can listen live Monday to Friday, 10 to 1 on your DAB radio on your smart speaker or download the Times Radio app. |
| 1:50.0 | Coming up on today's episodes for the first time in what four weeks we've got PMQ's unpacked. |
| 1:55.0 | Post party conferences and you would have expected some political knockabout. |
| 1:59.0 | Inevitably, the events in Israel and Gaza dominate PMQ's today. |
| 2:04.0 | Tim ship and the cheapest will commentator of the Sunday Times joins me to pause the action as Keir Starmer and Richie Sinac present a pretty united fund. |
| 2:13.0 | It has to be said. |
| 2:14.0 | And then Laura Spear rounds up the best of the rest. |
| 2:16.0 | A little bit of politics creeping in not least, Lisa Cameron, the former S&P MP, crossing the chamber to sit with the Conservatives after her defections. |
| 2:24.0 | That's coming up in just a moment. |
| 2:25.0 | But first, a little bit of light relief. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Anna Covell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Anna Covell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

