PMQs Unpacked: The A Team Is Back
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The deputies have gone, and Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are back at PMQs for their last outing before the summer recess. Matt pauses and unpacks the action from the Commons with Tim Shipman and Stig Abell, as the leaders clash over NHS waiting times and spending.
Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Carol Lewis discuss inflation, Nigel Farage's bank account, and anti-social youths in Cornwall.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
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| 0:30.5 | Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast, I'm Matt Chowley bringing the best of my times radio |
| 0:40.0 | show, you can listen live Monday to Friday, 10 to 1 on your DAB radio, on your smart speaker, |
| 0:45.2 | or download the Times Radio app, it means you can catch all the stuff that doesn't make it on |
| 0:49.0 | to the podcast. Coming up today is the last one of the series, PMQ's unpacked, |
| 0:56.0 | wish you soon out making a rare appearance at the end of the series show, the series finale, |
| 1:00.1 | PMQ's unpacked, I'm joined by Tim Shitman at Cheapest with a commentator at the Sunday |
| 1:04.3 | Times as ever, plus, stickable off of Times Radio breakfast, let's see what he makes of it, |
| 1:09.7 | I'm going to bid it, he doesn't like it, that's PMQ's unpacked, coming up here just to |
| 1:13.6 | first, let's take a look at the news with today's columnists. |
| 1:21.7 | The columnists on Times Radio, yes, and Wednesday should of course be |
| 1:27.9 | Albert, we've got the alley, Alice Thompson's here, morning. Morning, Matt. But no, do we know |
| 1:32.2 | where Robert Cramson is? Is he dressing up? Maybe in the heat wave in France. Is he? |
| 1:36.4 | Yeah, without a pool, do you remember he had actually drained his pool and got rid of it? |
| 1:41.3 | What a time. What a time. Are they small violin for Robert and his drains so important? |
| 1:46.9 | We have the Times Cowell Lewis, how are you doing? Hello, I'm very well, thank you. |
| 1:50.5 | We should start with your area of expertise as property editor, Cowell. |
| 1:54.1 | Mortgage rates. Mortgage rates. So inflation down by a bit more than expected to just to just |
| 1:59.6 | 7.9%, what does that mean at the Bank of England when they next come to consider interest rates? |
| 2:06.8 | Well, I hope it means they'll pause before they give us a 14th consecutive rise. |
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