Secrets Of The Whips Office
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
How do you maintain discipline in a government that's on the ropes after a long period in office, with a prime minister behind in the polls and beset by defections?
Former Tory MP and whip Gyles Brandreth charted the downfall of the Major government in his indiscreet diaries, and joins Matt to discuss the striking similarities between then and now.
Plus: Columnists India Knight and James Mariott discuss whether the nation is ready for what is shaping up to be a long election campaign, if tech bros make bad philosophers, and if TV shows work on stage.
Columnists (03:04)
Gyles Brandreth (24:50)
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| 1:14.0 | Coming up on today's episode, Charles Brandreth is breaking the code of the Whip's office. |
| 1:19.0 | He served in the government of John Major during the dying days of the Tory government in the 1990s. |
| 1:25.6 | He draws some parallels with today's politics and tells us what he really thinks of people who defect |
| 1:32.0 | from one party to another. |
| 1:34.0 | Before that, in the columnist India Knight and James Marrier |
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