Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Julie Bindel and Douglas Murray
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🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Next, Julie Bindel on the rise of lesbian divorce (06:12)
And finally, Douglas Murray on the hellish new trend of having to bring your ‘whole self’ to work. (14:00)
Produced and presented by Sam Holmes
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| 0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. Absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, I'm Sam Holmes and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Every week, a few of our favourite writers read their pieces from the latest issue. |
| 0:38.3 | This week we'll hear from Katie Balls on Labour's plans for a future with or without Boris, |
| 0:43.6 | Julie Bindle on the rise of lesbian divorce, and Douglas Murray on the hellish thought of having to bring your whole self to work. |
| 0:51.5 | First up, Katie Balls. |
| 0:54.0 | Boris's surprising saviour. Boris Johnson has a lot of people |
| 0:58.0 | to thank for his survival in 10 Downing Street, but Kier Stalmers should be the top of the list. |
| 1:03.7 | The Labour leader whipped his MPs to side with the government, when lockdown votes look tricky. |
| 1:08.6 | Labor even saved Johnson from a defeat of the Commons over |
| 1:11.2 | vaccine passports. But Stama's greatest service came last month on a day that could have |
| 1:15.9 | finished Johnson for good. Members of the 2019 corporate Tory MPs had met to discuss their |
| 1:21.3 | problems with the Prime Minister. The scene was set for an old-fashioned conservative |
| 1:25.4 | resicide. But just as senior Tories began to tell |
| 1:28.5 | Janliss that a confidence vote was imminent, the Labour Party announced that Christian Wakeford, a red |
| 1:34.1 | wall MP, had crossed the floor. The defection triggered the Tories tribal instincts, and they |
| 1:38.8 | rallied behind their leader. The immediate threat to Johnson subsided. |
| 1:47.2 | This moment seemed like another own goal from Stama. |
| 1:49.9 | Why blow a chance to have thrown a Tory Prime Minister? |
| 1:55.6 | The answer is that, for now at least, a wounded Boris Johnson suits Labour better than a new leader would. |
| 2:01.0 | It's a truism in politics that defections unite, says one Stalma ally, suggesting that Labour whips were all too aware that the move would have a rallying effect. The ideal scenario as |
| 2:05.7 | Boris stays on and damages the Tory brand, and then whoever replaces him, eventually, is too |
| 2:10.8 | tainted to appear fresh and new, as another senior labour figure. The past few months have offered |
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