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Where Politics Meets History

Priti Vacant

Where Politics Meets History

Global

Politics, History, News

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This emergency extra edition of the For the Many podcast sees Jacqui Smith and Iain Dale reacting to the breaking news of the resignation of Sir Philip Rutnam as Permanent Secretary of the Home Office. Jacqui shares her insights as a former Home Secretary, while Iain assesses the political fallout. Smut quota: Absolutely zero.

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0:00.0

I WERE SOME

0:02.0

I WERE SOME

0:05.0

WERE SO BRY HOPEO

0:07.0

O'S

0:09.0

Pretty Nothing like having music and I'm supposed to be getting my nails tonight.

0:34.6

For a party I'm going to tonight.

0:37.2

And the most civil

0:39.4

servancy-servant-looking civil servant in the world drops a massive uncivil-servancy bomb on us.

0:46.0

I know. Well, we thought we'd better have an emergency episode of the Four The Many Podcast.

0:50.7

This one will only last 15 minutes. And by the way, if you think this is the latest one,

0:55.3

well, it is, but we have actually already released this weekend's podcast. So just scroll down on

1:00.2

your phone and you can still listen to our normal podcast. But let's spend 10 or 15 minutes

1:04.6

discussing the ramifications of what Sir Philip Rutnam has done today, because I can't

1:10.7

remember a time when a civil servant

1:13.0

has done anything like this before. Nor can I. I mean, he, he, not only is he resigning,

1:20.7

and interestingly from his statement, it's obvious that he was going to go anyway because

1:26.1

he makes comment about how the cabinet office had offered

1:28.4

him a big financial package to go. So obviously, exactly. Well, he was not to be hushed, was he?

1:35.5

Because not only is he going and going publicly, but he's made that absolutely amazing TV statement

1:43.3

as well. And of course, his justification for doing this is obviously

1:47.6

he felt, I mean, he got quite emotional towards the end of it. He obviously felt that he himself

1:51.9

had been treated pretty badly, which is why he's threatening or he's going to take an action for

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