SpAd School
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Special advisers, known as 'SpAds', are being appointed left and right and centre by the new government. But what do they actually do? Matt is joined by former advisers Nikki da Costa, Henry Newman, Catherine MacLeod, Peter Cardwell, and Emily Walch, to discuss how to deal with your minister, the civil service, and the media.
Plus: Why was Tony Blair advised not to do televised debates?
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:28.9 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:36.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:39.5 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:43.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:46.3 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:50.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:56.1 | 2023 v..com slash and not all. Hello, I'm Matt Cholly and this is Politics Without the Boring Bits coming up on today's episode. |
| 1:11.8 | We're off to Spad School as a whole new army of young |
| 1:15.6 | Herbert's armed with mobile phones head into government. We ask what is a spad and |
| 1:21.6 | how do you make sure you and your minister don't get the sack. |
| 1:25.2 | Before that we dive into the archive to find out how Tony Blair was warned not to take part |
| 1:30.6 | in TV debates and a little sneak preview of this week's how to win an election as well. |
| 1:35.2 | If you like what you're here on the podcast, you can join me for politics like the Boingb |
| 1:38.0 | bits live on Times Radio on your D. A. B radio on your smart speaker or download the Times Radio app. It's Politics Without the Boingbits, |
| 1:45.0 | weekdays from 10. |
| 1:47.0 | Breaking news. |
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