Rishi Sunak's 100 Days
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Prime Minister has been in office for 100 days, a big achievement by recent standards. Matt has some exclusive polling from YouGov showing what the public thinks of his performance so far, and discusses the scale of the electoral task ahead of him.
Plus columnists India Knight and James Marriott discuss whether false modesty is worse than bragging, the Times investigation into the practices of British Gas debt collectors, and what to do with jade vaginal eggs.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. |
| 0:17.0 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:20.0 | This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does. |
| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast. Feel good travel. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello, this is the red box podcast. I'm Matt Chawley coming up on today's episode. He's done it. |
| 1:05.0 | He's made it to 100 days. Rishi Sunak marks this landmark in his premiership in number 10. |
| 1:12.0 | Some people used to say it was a bit of a relevance marking 100 days, but you know, previous experience tells us it's quite the achievement lasting that long. |
| 1:19.0 | We look back on how he's getting on so far. His impact on public opinion and some exclusive you gove polling for times radio reveals well, he's got quite the mountain to climb will also interrogate a bit further this idea. |
| 1:32.0 | Is it 1992 when the Tories pulled off a shock win against the Labour Party? Was it 1997 when Labour secured a massive landslide victory? |
| 1:41.0 | So that's coming up in just a moment. But first, as ever, we'll pick over the news with our columnists. |
| 1:46.0 | The columnists with night at the Marriott, India night and James Marriott on times radio. |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah, night at the Marriott, we can say very good morning to India night, morning, India. |
| 1:58.0 | Morning, Matt. |
| 2:00.0 | We can say very good morning to James, Marriott, morning, James. |
| 2:03.0 | Good morning. James, you're not here. Normally, you're here in the studio. Is it because I was rude about your outfit last week? |
| 2:08.0 | Yeah, well, it was a bit traumatising, actually. And I just wasn't worried that I could dress to impress the suitable standard that you would accept me in your studio. |
| 2:15.0 | You haven't even got your camera on. |
| 2:18.0 | I know. Well, the camera's broken. The camera's broken. It's all going wrong, actually, this morning. |
| 2:22.0 | But I'm, yeah, well, it's actually awesome terrified. You'll see what I'm wearing. You'll judge me. |
| 2:27.0 | Well, if they're not silk pajamas, I'll be very disappointed. |
| 2:32.0 | Now, early this week, we talked about about how he should all be bragging like Americans. |
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