SHOW 126 - *DISASTER SPECIAL* Martin Angus and Salma Shah (Election Special #14)
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Political Party Daily and this is an episode I am very excited |
| 0:13.0 | about. |
| 0:14.0 | The whole series I've been asking you for your war stories, for the stories about when |
| 0:17.8 | elections go wrong, the mishaps that happen on the campaign, keep them coming in by the |
| 0:21.5 | way, politicalpartypodcast.gmail.com. |
| 0:23.3 | So I thought we'd better do an episode dedicated to mishaps. |
| 0:28.5 | So two guests today who were superb, Sam Masha, who was special adviser to Sadja Javid, |
| 0:32.8 | Martin Angus, who's an old mate of mine, who worked for the Labour Party and just to give |
| 0:37.1 | you a flavour of what to expect, Martin was head of the Deputy Prime Minister's tour |
| 0:42.7 | when Labour in government and the Deputy Prime Minister was John Prescott. |
| 0:46.1 | Martin is in a lot of the footage of the day when John Prescott gets egged and punched |
| 0:51.0 | a bloke in the face. |
| 0:52.0 | I'll begin my asking Martin about his rather grand title of head of the Deputy Prime |
| 0:56.7 | Minister's tour. |
| 0:58.9 | Delighted to be joined today by Sam Masha, former special adviser to Sadja Javid and Martin |
| 1:05.8 | Angus, who had the amazing job title of head of the Deputy Prime Minister's tour during |
| 1:10.9 | the 2001 general election. |
| 1:13.1 | Martin, what did that job title mean? |
| 1:16.8 | What he meant really was looking after John, making sure that his every whim was satisfied |
| 1:22.0 | every whim. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, not quite every whim, but managing his bespoke battle bus, which he really, really |
| 1:29.7 | loved, he was very, very fond of his bus. |
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