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Politics Unpacked

Secrets of The Lobby

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley speaks to Times Radio's own Carole Walker about her new book 'Lobby Life' and speaks to Theresa May's Press Secretary Paul Harrison as well as former political editor of the Times Phil Webster and the current Political Editor Steve Swinford revealing how the lobby works.


PLUS he dives into Monday's news with Political Columnist Rachel Sylvester and Martha Gill of the Evening Standard on Boris Johnson's row with his Chancellor Rishi Sunak.



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0:00.0

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be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

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towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

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green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

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slash change.

1:16.6

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chauley. Do let us know what you think about the podcast.

1:21.3

You can either email me Matt. Chauley at times.radio or even better post a review on iTunes or

1:26.2

if you get your podcasts from right coming up on today's episode a little treat for you. The secrets

1:32.5

of the lobby we go behind the scenes in this shadowy group of journalists who stalled the

1:37.6

corridors of power. My time's ready of colleague Carol Walker's got a book all about the lobby.

1:41.8

We speak to her. We hear from some of the spin doctors who've tried to get their stories past the

1:47.2

lobby and the current and former political editors of the time Steve Swinford and Phil Webster

1:53.5

are coming up to. But first it's our columnist panel. No, let me pose this week. So we've got

1:58.6

Rachel Vester. This week, John Byte, Martha Gill.

2:04.3

Really interested in talking about the, I don't know, basically, we need to come up with the

2:09.8

name for them. So maybe we can do that. But it's the new TBGB. It used to be every story in

2:15.8

British politics was seen to the prism of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and whether or not they

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