Show 352. Jacob Rees-Mogg: LIVE at the Edinburgh Festival
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jacob Rees-Mogg: LIVE at the Edinburgh Festival
After an earthquake of an election for Jacob and the Conservatives, what does the future hold?
Jacob Rees-Mogg opens up on why the Tories lost, how they can win again and whether he'll stand next time.
Plus... how does he stay so trim? His diet tips may surprise you...
SEE Matt on tour until March 2025: https://www.mattforde.com/live-shows
2024
31 July - 25 August: Edinburgh, The Pleasance
2 October: Norwich Playhouse
3 October: Maidenhead, Norden Farm
9 October: Middlesbrough, The Crypt
10 October: London, Leicester Square Theatre
24 October: Hull, Truck Theatre
6 November: Exeter, Phoenix
8 November: Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre
14 November: Basingstoke, The Haymarket
15 November: Colchester Arts Centre
20 November: York, The Crescent
21 November: Chorley, Little Theatre
22 November: Salford, The Lowry
27 November: Chipping Norton Theatre
28 November: Leicester, Y Theatre
29 November: Eastleigh, The Berry
31 November: Faversham, The Alexander Centre
2025
4 February: Leeds, City Varieties
5 February: Sheffield, The Leadmill
6 February: Chelmsford Theatre
7 February: Bedford, The Quarry Theatre
12 February: Bath, Komedia
13 February: Southend, Palace Theatre
16 February: Cambridge, The Junction
20 February: Nottingham, Lakeside Arts
23 February: Brighton, Komedoa
25 February: Cardiff, Glee Club
26 February: Bury St Edmunds, Theatre Royal
2 March: Bristol, Tobacco Factory
11 March: Aberdeen, Lemon Tree
12 March: Glasgow, Glee Club
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:27.2 | BP.com slash and not all. Hello and welcome to the political party and it's another live special recorded in front of an audience at the |
| 0:47.8 | Edinburgh Festival. Today's guest is Jacob Rees Mog. More on that in a second. |
| 0:52.1 | Firstly, thank you to all of you who came to see |
| 0:54.3 | these live editions at the Edinburgh Festival. |
| 0:57.3 | Man, it's just so much more fun doing it in front of a crowd. |
| 1:00.9 | It's a completely different show, and I love recording the episodes over |
| 1:04.5 | Zoom and love interviewing politicians but doing it in front of an audience where you can be |
| 1:10.0 | a bit cheekier and you can tease people a bit more is just great fun and the reaction to the Anasawa episode has been |
| 1:16.4 | superb and so thank you for all your messages and tweets and emails about that. |
| 1:22.3 | You can email the show Political Party |
| 1:23.8 | podcast at gmail.com please leave a five-star |
| 1:27.0 | and review helps other people find the show and I think these are |
| 1:30.3 | amazing ways to profile politicians and to show them in really more depth than you get in shorter |
| 1:38.0 | interviews and in other media interviews because having the crowd there at a comedy festival the tone is obviously different. |
| 1:46.3 | Thank you to everyone who came to see me at the Edinburgh festival. My God, it was phenomenal and I don't mean that as in I was phenomenal I mean the |
| 1:55.9 | experience was phenomenal because obviously it's my first one back since |
| 2:00.2 | everything happened and well it's always a thrill being a stand-up comedian |
| 2:05.4 | but to just get fully back to it and to really enjoy it has been a treat so |
| 2:09.7 | thank you all of you for coming. |
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