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Quite right!: Boris, Cameron or May? – Q&A

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

To submit your urgent questions to Michael and Maddie, go to: spectator.co.uk/quiteright

This week on the first ever Quite right! Q&A: What’s your most left-wing belief? Michael & Maddie confess their guilty liberal secrets on the Elgin Marbles, prison reform and private equity – or ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism’.

Also this week: who would you trust to save your life on a desert island – Boris Johnson, Theresa May or David Cameron? And finally, a literary turn: from John Donne to Thomas Hardy, Michael and Maddie share their favourite poems, and make the case for learning verse by heart.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson.


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0:00.0

Michael and I have a parish announcement to make.

0:02.5

Quite Right, we'll be airing two episodes a week.

0:05.3

With our usual episode on a Wednesday and a bonus question and answer episode on a Friday morning.

0:11.0

So we're inviting you, Spectator, subscribers, to submit urgent questions.

0:15.8

And if you'd like to submit your questions for Quite Right, next week, you can do so at Spectator.com.uk

0:21.5

forward slash Quite Right.

0:28.5

Welcome to Quite Right's questions and answers.

0:32.2

We'll be discussing which of our beliefs is the most left wing.

0:37.1

We'll also be considering, if we were caught on

0:39.2

a desert island, who we'd like to rescue us? Would it be Colonel Boris Johnson, Mother

0:44.3

Superior Theresa May, or would it be swashbuckling captain David Cameron? And both Maddie and I

0:50.4

will be responding to a reader's request to recite our favourite poem and to explain what.

0:58.3

Our first question comes from reader Graeme Clemo.

1:02.3

And Graham, he asks, what is your most left-wing belief, Maddie?

1:08.5

Ooh, okay, I do have some left-wing beliefs.

1:12.1

This one I know is going to be extremely unpopular with all listeners and probably you.

1:16.7

I do think that the Elgin Marble should be sent to Greece.

1:21.0

Because, okay, I hope that I have reasons for...

1:24.0

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.

1:26.3

I despise myself sometimes. But I think the reason that I think they should be sent back is kind of not for DEI sort of retribution reasons. You know, I don't think every gallery in the world that has something that came from another country is morally obligated to give it back. I do, however, think that the Elgin Marbles are a very special

1:45.6

case and that symbols of national identity are extremely important to a country. I think this is

1:50.2

something that we understand that, you know, it's partly why Britain voted for Brexit, because

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