Show 340. Tim Loughton Returns. Again.
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
One of the most entertaining guests in the history of the show returns, to tell the incredible story of his deportation from Djibouti.
Tim is one of five MPs to be sanctioned by China, but never expected that to have an effect in Africa,
He's standing down at the next election and gives his entertaining assessment of the issues facing the Conservatives, including his revoew of Liz Truss's book.
This is a great story, well told.
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| 0:45.0 | welcome to the political party. |
| 0:46.0 | Today's guest is Tim Lawton. |
| 0:48.0 | Tim was one the first people I ever had on the show and he's been on |
| 0:51.0 | periodically throughout the years. |
| 0:52.0 | He's always great to talk to because as |
| 0:56.4 | well as being very passionate he's funny but he really defends what he would see as a classic |
| 1:01.9 | conservative position on things and this is |
| 1:04.0 | fascinating on home office issues because as well as being the MP for Eastworthy |
| 1:07.7 | insurance although he's standing down at the next election his membership |
| 1:11.8 | with the Home Office select committee in the way that he's dispatched his duties |
| 1:14.8 | doing that, eviscerating Home Office Ministers, Home Secretaries and Home Office Staff has been |
| 1:21.2 | fantastic. |
| 1:22.2 | But what does the Tory MP make of what's happening |
| 1:25.3 | to the Tory party and the effectiveness trusts and all stuff like that? But also, you've seen |
| 1:30.7 | he was in the news recently, he got deported from Djibouti because he has been effectively |
| 1:39.2 | blacklisted by China because of his raising of his concerns about China's impact on our |
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