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All Out Politics

Special Relationships - inside and outside Number Ten

All Out Politics

Sky News

News Commentary, Politics, News, Government

4.2156 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Adam Boulton and guests assess the fallout from the US Presidential election and examine what the near future holds for the UK's 'special relationship' with America under a Joe Biden administration.

They also discuss the challenges ahead on handling the coronavirus pandemic during a week in which we have edged closer to vaccine but also marked the sad milestone of 50 thousand Covid-related deaths in the UK.

Plus, what happened inside Number Ten that forced Boris Johnson's Director Communications to resign.

Joining Adam this week are:
The former British ambassador to the United States, Sir Christopher Meyer;
the chief executive of the Demos think-tank, and former special adviser to Nick Clegg, Polly Mackenzie; and Sky's chief political correspondent Jon Craig

Transcript

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0:46.0

Hello and welcome to the All-Out Politics Podcast. I'm Adam Bolton.

0:49.4

Joining me this week, Sir Christopher Mayer, former ambassador to the United States and former Prime Minister's spokesman,

0:55.7

the chief executive of the Demos think tank and former special advisor to Nick Clegg, Pauline McKenzie,

1:01.8

and Sky's chief political correspondent, John Craig. Well, it's a very kind of you to join us,

1:08.1

awful lot to talk about, of course, There's been that election in the United States.

1:11.9

Get your views on that.

1:13.9

That grim milestone, as we say, here with COVID of 50,000 official deaths being recorded.

1:21.3

And also a fine old situation in Downing Street with Lee Kane, the media director for Boris Johnson,

1:33.0

resigning after saying that he'd actually been offered the job of Chief of Staff.

1:37.4

But according to the newspapers, Boris Johnson's girlfriend and others told Boris Johnson

1:42.8

that he shouldn't give it to Mr. Kane.

1:49.0

Let's start with all of that. John Craig, just fill us in.

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