Special: a review of 2016 from Westminster

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Matt Chorley is joined by the Political Editor of The Sunday Times, Tim Shipman, at Westminster as the pair discuss the topsy-turvy political waters of 2016 and look ahead to what's in store in the coming year. Discover more at www.thetimes.co.uk/redboxemail

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0:44.0	The National Lottery.
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0:48.0	Players must be 18 or over. Hello and welcome to the Red Box podcast on the Times. I'm Matt Cholly with
0:58.9	this special look back over the political year of 2016. I'm joined by Tim Schiffman,
1:04.3	political matter of the Sunday Times and also the keeper of the Red Box email flame
1:08.8	on a Sunday morning. Tim, let's look back at where we were at the beginning of the year David Cameron
1:13.4	was still negotiating with Brussels George Osbourne and Michael Go sat around the
1:17.0	cabinet table Jeremy Corbyn hadn't even started his revenge reshuffle can we
1:21.1	be sure it's now even ended? Boris Johnson was mayor of London.
1:23.8	Nigel Farage was trying to keep UKIP through obscurity and Donald Trump was a reality
1:28.4	TV star with an overactive imagination and Twitter account. Well that's not changed at least.
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