Rishi Sunak's Worst Week
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak faces resignations and rebellions over his immigration policy, with questions being asked about his survival as prime minister. Will his emergency press conference be enough to persuade his critics to back him? Matt is joined by The Times' Political Editor Steven Swinford and Politics Professor Philip Cowley to gauge the scale of unrest within the Conservative Party.
Plus: Times Radio's Calum MacDonald explains what we learned from Boris Johnson's second day of evidence at the Covid inquiry.
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| 0:00.0 | Just imagine what your best Christmas ever would sound like. |
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| 0:59.9 | without the boring bitch you can listen to me live on Times Radio Monday |
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| 1:10.4 | Wishes soon at worst week yet. There's lots of competition for it. We speak to Steve Swinford, |
| 1:14.7 | the politicals of the Times. Phil Cowley, who knows a lot about rebellions to gauge just how much unrest there is on the Tory benches. |
| 1:22.1 | Before that, let's take a look at Boris Johnson giving evidence to the code inquiry for the second day. |
| 1:28.0 | If yesterday was all about the early part, the run-up January February, March 2020. |
| 1:33.0 | Today we've sort of moved on to the second, the latter part of 2020, |
| 1:38.0 | heading into the summer and eat out to help out and then into the autumn with going into tears and can we save |
| 1:45.3 | Christmas and all of that. |
| 1:46.7 | Calla McDonald's, time's radio to Calla McDonald's, been watching it along with me. |
| 1:50.4 | And Boris Johnson's been saying about how he was perplexed at the way that Chris |
| 1:54.8 | Whitti and Patrick Valence government's two top scientific advisors. They came not |
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