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🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.9 | Hello, it's Emma Barnett here. Welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:09.2 | Since losing his health secretary and chancellor within minutes of each other last night, |
0:13.9 | and the resignations continuing this morning with a minister and parliamentary private secretary |
0:18.8 | gone by 9 a.m., a former aide to the Prime Minister has described his current mentality |
0:24.5 | as a scorched earth policy, in which you're retreating and you burn everything to the ground |
0:30.7 | as you go. That insight was shared with the politics website Politico. |
0:34.9 | The next appearance from the Prime Minister will be in two hours' time at noon for Prime Minister's |
0:39.4 | questions. Last night, the conservative backbench MP Roger Gale, whom it's safe to say is no |
0:45.3 | fan of the Prime Minister, made a particular point I wanted to put to you today. He said Margaret |
0:51.4 | Thatcher and Theresa May were honorable women and resigned, and that he would like to think Mr |
0:56.8 | Johnson is an honorable man and will do the same. Going on to say, the game is up, this is an |
1:02.2 | open door walk through it and if the Prime Minister won't do it, collectively the conservative party |
1:06.8 | has to do it for him. What do you make of that theory? Honourable women leaders have resigned. |
1:13.6 | I mean, of course, it's a men of resigned. David Cameron resigned too, albeit in a highly |
1:18.2 | specific set of circumstances after losing the argument over the European Union and our membership |
1:23.5 | of it. But what is your take on that theory? We've only had two female leaders, of course, |
1:29.6 | and both did resign. But is it honourable to resign? Is that a word you would use? |
1:35.8 | And this morning, where are you at with this? Do you think Boris Johnson should resign? |
1:41.0 | Text me here at Woman's Down 84844. Text will be charged at your standard rate on social media, |
1:46.1 | where at BBC Women's Hour or you can email me through the Women's Hour website. |
1:51.2 | Also on today's programme, music from SoulSinger, PPR, and fresh from her Glaston Bruset, |
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