SHOW 135 - Craig Oliver (Election Special #23)

Matt Forde's Political Party

The Political Party

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4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Craig Oliver is uniquely placed to answer some of the biggest questions posed by this election campaign. He was Director of Communications at Number 10 the last time the Conservatives won a majority and before that he was editor of the BBC News at Ten and BBC News at Six. Is the BBC biased? Does it matter if the Tory campaign has crossed the line of decency? What's the best way to deal with stories that are completely untrue? Follow Craig on Twitter here: @CraigOliver100 Follow Matt on Twitter here: @mattforde Buy Craig's book 'Unleashing Demons' here: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Unleashing-Demons-Inside-Story-Brexit/dp/1473652480/ Email the show: politicalpartypodcast@gmail.com Sign up to Matt's mailing list for free treats and goodies: http://mattforde.com/mailing-list Get tickets to Matt's 'Brexit Pursued by a Bear' which starts at the Salford Lowry on Tuesday 14 January here: www.mattforde.com/live BREXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR tour dates: 14 January - Salford Lowry 20 February - Crewe 21 February - Leicester 5 March - Darlington 6 March - Hexham 7 March - Bedford 10 March - London Southbank 18 March - Leeds 19 March - York 20 March - Alnwick 22 March - Southend 23 March - Cambridge 27 March - London Southbank 29 March - Brighton 7 April - Newcastle 8 April - Glasgow 9 April - Aberdeen 10 April - Chorley 12 April - Camberley 17 April - Corby 28 April - Exeter 30 April - Bristol 1 May - Gloucester 2 May - London Bloomsbury 7 May - Maidstone 13 May - Nottingham 20 May - Sheffield 21 May - Stafford 22 May - London Southbank 30 May - Edinburgh 31 May - Edinburgh

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the political party.
0:09.6	Daily as this election campaign starts to draw toward close, today's guest couldn't
0:14.2	be better timed.
0:15.2	Craig Oliver, director of communications for David Cameron inside number 10, editor of
0:19.9	the BBC News at 6 and News at 10, so is uniquely placed to give us insight into the role of
0:26.4	the media and an election campaign, specifically the BBC and what it's like to be inside Downing
0:31.2	Street trying to get those messages out, trying to fire fight.
0:35.3	We talk about a whole load of things.
0:37.3	He's absolutely fascinating.
0:39.3	There's some great stories and great insights in here.
0:42.1	I began by asking him as someone who lived in Scotland in the formative years of his life,
0:47.1	whether he had a different antenna for what was happening in Scotland back at the start
0:51.1	of that 2014 independent referendum.
0:57.8	So I went up to Scotland when I was 11 and as I had to say, had lots of relatives in Scotland
1:02.4	and what was really interesting, I was sort of thinking about why was I sort of more drawn
1:07.6	towards the Conservatives.
1:08.6	I think the establishment in Scotland when I was growing up was Labour.
1:12.0	I mean it really, really was, it was almost impossible to imagine anything other than Scottish
1:17.5	Labour being in charge.
1:18.6	And then my first job was working as a producer at Scottish Television.
1:23.4	And there was a journalist there called Fiona Ross and I felt amazed the extent to which
1:29.3	she was able to support Labour in her commentary, it's no really question, and there was a story
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