PMQs Unpacked: Strikes and Blancmange
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Maguire and Tim Shipman pause the action and analyse the exchanges at Prime Minister’s Questions, as Rishi Sunak promises action to stop "unreasonable" union leaders and Sir Keir Starmer accuses him of wobbling like blancmange over housing targets.
Plus columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss the the Strep A outbreak, the perils of the office Christmas party, and what happens when you hold a book signing and nobody turns up.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of Red Box is sponsored by EDF, the driving force behind a greener Britain. |
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| 0:53.6 | Hello, you're listening to the Times Red Box Politics podcast. I'm Patrick McGuire, |
| 1:01.2 | still in for maturely, as he crosses the Atlantic at a snail's pace. Very busy show for you today. |
| 1:07.6 | We've, of course, brought you PMQ's unpacked and disinitied Kingdom at first, |
| 1:13.5 | time for a columnist panel. It was a cracker today with Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton. |
| 1:19.2 | Don't go anywhere. The columnists with Aliburth, Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton, |
| 1:25.2 | on Times Radio. Yes, already heard from Robert this morning. Morning, Robert. |
| 1:28.7 | Morning, Patrick. I spoke to you without introducing you very rude of me. And Alice Thompson, |
| 1:33.1 | Morning, Alice. I think it's going to be Nick Clegg, can I just say, because it can't be the |
| 1:36.2 | Tories or Labour. It's not Nick Clegg either, I'm afraid. I know. He's not Nick Clegg either, isn't he? |
| 1:41.4 | Oh, he's born in 1967, isn't he? He is, what does he go? He is. So we've already ruled out, |
| 1:48.4 | we've already, yeah, look, you know, love a bit of live action guest here. |
| 1:51.7 | Love a bit of live action guest here. We won't play the no, no, no, we won't be that cruel. Anyway, |
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