Show 229 - *Andrea Leadsom - Live*
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
One of the brightest talents in the Conservative Party shows why she's so highly regarded across the political divide. Andrea shares some brilliant stories from some of the biggest moments in modern politics. From the inside story of how Vote Leave prepared for the TV debate at Wembley, to her 2017 leadership bid, to grilling Bob Diamond when he appeared in front of the Treasury Select Committee and so much more. This is a corker from French Martini start to finish.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. One of the live specials recorded at the beautiful |
| 0:15.8 | garrick theatre in the west end and today's guest is Andrea Ledson, one of the biggest |
| 0:19.7 | stars on the conservative benches and has held some big briefs for the Tory party. |
| 0:23.9 | There's been business secretary, environment food and royal affairs with leader of the House |
| 0:27.6 | of Commons and there are some brilliant stories from those briefs and of course some great |
| 0:32.8 | inside stories about the Brexit campaign. Don't forget you can email the show politicalparty |
| 0:37.6 | podcast at gmail.com and you can leave a review as well on Apple iTunes on wherever you listen. |
| 0:44.8 | You can leave a star rating if you leave a written one. I'm told it helps get the shot the charts. |
| 0:50.2 | So why wouldn't you do that? But yes email the show politicalpartypodcast at gmail.com |
| 0:55.8 | with your stories and anything you can email with anything. |
| 0:59.4 | Well, they don't spam me. You know, I can't have junk man as it is but some |
| 1:03.8 | stories about unusual encounters with politicians have become. |
| 1:10.1 | I never thought this was going to take off but it has and I love it and there's a great email here |
| 1:16.0 | from Tom who says I have a story about meeting a politician in the wild what a great way to |
| 1:23.7 | that doesn't paint me in the best lights but hopefully sharing it will alleviate some of my shame. |
| 1:28.6 | Well Tom, prepare to have your shame alleviated or depending on how it goes compounded. |
| 1:35.0 | Myself and I mate were lucky enough to have tickets at day three of the Lord's Test of the 2015 |
| 1:39.6 | Asher series. Tom lovely topical starts. It is cricket weather so this is perfect and I'm just |
| 1:46.4 | starting to get into cricket. I can't believe I never got into it before you know and it was only |
| 1:52.4 | on the day that we'll come final thought. I've made a huge mistake of emissing out on this amazing |
| 1:57.2 | thing. So Tom, this is right up my street already. Anyway, it says it's a beautiful July day. |
| 2:02.0 | The promise of copious cold pints. Oh yeah. And Jimmy Anderson rattling through the Aussie's |
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