Question Time: Expensing helicopters, the North-South divide, and Rory's return to politics?
The Rest Is Politics
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Will Rory ever return to politics? How do MPs serve effectively from remote areas? Should Russia be allowed to compete in the Paris Olympics? Alastair and Rory cover these topics, plus the role of Cabinet Secretaries, Biden's State of the Union Address, and what it means to be a 'recovering politician'.
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| 1:15.2 | Welcome to another episode of the Restless Politics Question Time with me, Alistair Campbell, |
| 1:28.4 | and with me, Rory Stewart. Now, Rory, we taught in the main podcast about |
| 1:34.8 | the earthquake in Turkey, but very good question here from Fred Banning. |
| 1:38.6 | Reports this week suggest that Turkey has raised £30 billion in earthquake tax since 1999. That's |
| 1:45.0 | the earthquake that I mentioned in the main podcast, but it's unclear where the money has gone. |
| 1:50.2 | How can those denating to the disaster emergencies commit you appeal? And other organizations do so |
| 1:56.1 | with confidence that the money will get to where it's needed? And I guess that's something you |
| 1:59.4 | have to wrestle with as a charity head the whole time. Yeah, so we're actually involved in a very |
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