Prime Ministers and Number Ten
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As politics gets even wilder, I reflect on how the make-up and effectiveness of the No.10 operation tells us much about the character of a Prime Minister. Based on the recent past, the structure of Number Ten will neither save a Prime Minister nor lead them to their doom. The wider political context always determines their fate… Plus, more brilliant questions from the UK and around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and Roll Politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards. |
| 0:26.1 | Thank you so much for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and around the world. |
| 0:31.9 | And as ever, and you won't be surprised to hit me. |
| 0:34.7 | I know I say this every week, but it's always true. |
| 0:37.0 | We have got so much to cram in |
| 0:39.4 | during our time together this week. If it's okay with all of you, I will focus on prime ministers |
| 0:47.2 | and Downing Streets, the relationship between prime ministers and number 10, those who work there. I will be doing so for obvious reasons. |
| 0:58.9 | Then we've got some brilliant questions. It's really interesting. Your questions are already |
| 1:03.3 | starting to ask about possible successes and what form that might take, which reflects the |
| 1:09.9 | instability of the current regime for all the spin |
| 1:14.2 | about change and so on. This is a strange period of this epic saga. But before all of that, |
| 1:21.4 | a really big announcement and then a familiar announcement. First of all, again, if it's |
| 1:27.0 | okay with all of you, a very important |
| 1:28.8 | and exciting announcement, I think. Well, I'm excited. Obviously, all of you have helped support |
| 1:34.3 | this podcast get to where it is. I'm now recording in a studio. Some of you used to email saying, |
| 1:38.9 | oh, Steve, you know, a bit too, the sound goes up and does a well. We're in a studio now. But I'm |
| 1:44.0 | really excited that we're now |
| 1:45.7 | on Patreon too. Now, a lot of you know about Patreon because some of you have emailed me and said, |
| 1:51.4 | get on Patreon, get on Patreon. And I'm doing it now. But for those of you who don't, it's the |
| 1:55.9 | crowdfunding platform for independent creative projects of which this is one so if you want to support |
| 2:04.2 | rock and roll politics the podcast and help keep us growing this community trying to make sense of |
| 2:09.8 | politics this is the best way to do it if you go on to the patreon site you will see different |
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