Show 366. Alison McGovern
The Political Party
The Political Party
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Policy! Football! Pies!
It's the interview with everything.
After years in opposition, Alison is now an Employment Minister and is keen to get on and change things. She explains the changes she's making to Jobcentres and the difference they'll make.
Plus... will Alison become the latest politician to start a podcast?
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| 0:24.7 | Instagram.com slash teen accounts. Hello and welcome to the political party. |
| 0:46.2 | Today's guest is Alison McGovern, a minister in the Department of Work and Pensions. |
| 0:50.7 | And you may have heard her recently giving a number of interviews around changes to job centres. |
| 0:55.5 | We get into that in detail just at the start. |
| 0:59.2 | Now, thankfully, Alison couldn't hear them, but I don't know what's gone. |
| 1:03.5 | There's some software update on my laptop where it just started pinging with text messages. |
| 1:09.0 | And I didn't know how to turn the notifications off. |
| 1:11.5 | So Allison helps me turn my notifications off, |
| 1:14.9 | even though she doesn't use Apple products. |
| 1:17.4 | So, well, I mean, there you go. |
| 1:20.5 | You see, that's her skills as an employment minister, |
| 1:23.2 | helping me gain the skills that will benefit me in my workplace. |
| 1:27.7 | So this is, you see the power of ministerial intervention. |
| 1:33.5 | It happened live during this podcast. |
| 1:37.0 | We're talking about a whole load of things. |
| 1:38.6 | And before that, thanks to everyone who's come to see me on tour recently. |
| 1:42.4 | I've had a wonderful time last week in Chipping Norton, in Leicester in Eastley. |
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