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Talk Breakfast

Pressure To Prioritise

Talk Breakfast

Ricky Freelove

News, Labour, Reform Uk, Immigration, News Commentary, Current Affairs, Conservatives, Daily News, Government, Uk News, Politics, Debate, Phone In, British News, Speech Radio, Talk

4.3763 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mark Dolan tackles the biggest political stories on Talk Breakfast, with his trademark wit and straight-talking style. On today’s show, Mark is joined by Neil Parish, former Conservative MP, to discuss Labour tensions as Angela Rayner increases the pressure on the Prime Minister.David Wooding, former newspaper editor, gives his take on today's top stories, including reports that Lord Sewell will tell Sir Keir Starmer that Britain has failed white working-class boys. And rounding out the line-up is royal biographer Tom Bower, who discusses his new bombshell book on Harry and Meghan.

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0:00.0

The home of common sense. This is talk.

0:05.4

Someone that's always got a great take is the brilliant Neil Parrish, who is a former Conservative MP and now farmer.

0:13.2

Neil, you know the inner workings of Parliament, the machinations of the House of Commons better than most.

0:18.8

You sat as a Conservative MP for many years.

0:22.8

How do you see this playing out?

0:24.7

Angela Lerina now odds on to replace the Prime Minister.

0:28.2

Do you see that happening after May?

0:31.1

Well, well, I'm not a Catholic, but I will cross myself at this stage because I believe that it would be horrendous for the country.

0:41.1

And I agree absolutely with Neil Wallace.

0:44.1

I think also the Labour Party has a very complex system of getting rid of their leaders.

0:49.9

You know, the Tory party, for all its faults, is very clinical and can get rid of the leader, possibly,

0:55.4

almost too easily. And so Stama will hang on. I was talking to a lady barrister the other day,

1:02.3

Sue and I were having dinner with this couple, and she was saying that Stama is very, very stubborn,

1:09.2

and he will hang on like mad, you know, doing his legal career.

1:13.9

That's exactly what he was like. And I don't think he's, no, I don't think he's going anywhere.

1:18.8

And I think the Labour Party is doomed, really. They doomed if they do and they're doomed if

1:23.6

they don't. I think the system, Stama will try and shore his place up, and I think he will hang on.

1:31.5

I think it's terrible for the country because they're just making things worse all the time.

1:37.4

And of course, if Rainer was to get in, she would pursue this sort of drive on the so-called rich and then just drive the capital

1:46.5

out of the country, drive business out of the country, and she will carry on where Reeves

1:52.1

has left off. Because you see, you can't blame the government for the situation in the

1:57.1

Middle East other than the way they've handled it, not for the economic situation,

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