Show 211 - Andy Coulson
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
The former editor of the News of the World and former Director of Communications at 10 Downing Street talks in depth about both roles, the people he worked with and for, and the lessons he's learned from going through his own crisis. It's a gripping account of what life was really like as a tabloid editor, the things that drove the people who worked at The News of the World and his take on why the Conservatives didn't win the 2010 election outright. And, of course, so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's guest is Andy Coulson, former editor |
| 0:16.4 | of the News of the World, former director of communications at number 10 Downing Street |
| 0:19.9 | under David Cameron. We talk about both of those roles in detail as you'll be able to tell |
| 0:24.8 | from the length of this podcast. Andy is the latest and a long line of guests who I've |
| 0:29.0 | kept longer than the promised hour. Always of course, because it's my judgment at the |
| 0:33.2 | hour mark that the conversation is so fascinating, it would be wrong to abruptly end it at that |
| 0:37.5 | point as long as the guest seems happy to continue. And I think you'll find this episode |
| 0:41.4 | fascinating. Andy is uniquely placed to give his insight about the relationship between |
| 0:46.2 | politicians and the media. We talk about working for Rupert Murdoch, working for David Cameron, |
| 0:50.6 | the different cultures in both of those workplaces. And Andy has reflections on his time in |
| 0:55.8 | both roles that may surprise you. I won't say any more because I'm about to keep you for |
| 1:01.0 | longer than the usually promised hour, but every second of this really is fascinating. |
| 1:08.5 | Now you can email the show politicalpartypodcast.gmail.com with any thoughts or reflections about |
| 1:13.4 | this or any other episode. As you may be aware, in recent episodes, I've been at least partially |
| 1:18.8 | animated, there are people registering to vote by post. I can't believe as a country we're |
| 1:23.0 | not really having a discussion about the elections in May during a pandemic and whether people |
| 1:26.6 | are going to feel safe or not going into a polling station, those elections are happening. So I'm |
| 1:30.9 | keen that people don't lose their voice. I've registered to vote by post. Rachel Farrington got in |
| 1:35.9 | touch. She's the founder of a website called Voting Counts, which is a brilliant website, |
| 1:39.9 | getting people to get people to register to vote at all. And there's a section on there about |
| 1:44.6 | the history of elections, why it's important to vote. And there's a special dedicated postal |
| 1:49.1 | vote section. You can visit that website, voteincounts.org.uk. You can follow it on Twitter, |
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