Rishi, Keir and the Times Newspaper
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak briefs the Times about his plans to cut taxes as taxes are about to rise… Keir Starmer gives an interview to the paper that makes no waves… plus brilliant questions.
Rock’n’Roll Politics: The Christmas Special is live at the Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham on Wed Dec 8th: https://ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/steve-richards-rock-n-roll-politics-christmas-special/
And live at Kings Place London on Thursday Dec 9th (also streaming live): https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/steve-richards-presents-rock-n-roll-politics-christmas-special/
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm going to Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me, Steve Richards, the weekly podcast. |
| 0:36.1 | Thank you very much for tuning in wherever you are |
| 0:39.2 | around the UK and indeed the world. And as ever, in our time together, we have got a lot to cram in |
| 0:47.3 | today. I'm going to reflect if it's okay with all of you on the themes of Rishi Sunak, Kyr Stama, tax and spend and the Times newspaper. |
| 0:59.2 | It's all interconnected. I promise you it will make sense. Some of you might have already got it. |
| 1:03.9 | Indeed, one of our listeners has written a question about it, Andrew Kitchin. I'm going to make a whole theme of your question, Andrew. |
| 1:10.1 | We've got a |
| 1:10.9 | brilliant range of questions on such a fantastic range of topics, but one of them is this running |
| 1:18.6 | theme of should we change this voting system, electoral reform. I said I'll do an electoral reform |
| 1:23.2 | special for all you electoral reform freaks out there. Well, I haven't got the energy for that yet, |
| 1:28.6 | but we're going to come close with some of your questions, but don't worry, those who don't share |
| 1:33.4 | that passion, it will be fleeting before we move on to other issues, loads to get into our time |
| 1:40.2 | together. And as you might have noticed, as you you are running walking your dog along the canal or |
| 1:46.8 | the australian beaches or cooking or baking bread hopefully you'll notice the sound quality being |
| 1:54.2 | really really great now because i'm recording in a studio some of you have kindly emailed and said |
| 2:00.3 | oh steve yeah we love your podcast, |
| 2:02.6 | but the volume's a bit low this week or stuff. Well, if you saw where I was recording my podcast |
| 2:08.7 | until my appearance in the studio today, you would not be surprised that every now and again |
| 2:14.8 | there was, how should I put it, a kind of technical hitch. Anyway, |
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