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Politics Unpacked

Strong and stable geniuses? 2018 for May, Corbyn and Trump

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley is joined by Times columnists David Aaronovitch and Rachel Sylvester and former Director of Strategy & Chief Speechwriter at May's No10, Chris Wilkins.


The panel debate: a government afflicted by caution as seen in the reshuffle, how the hard left is further seizing control of the Labour party and its institutions and whether President Hilary Clinton could have survived the mainstream media onslaught if facing Trump like revelations.



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0:00.0

Hello Anika Rice here and Will Lyons and this is Wine Times in association with the Sunday Times wine club

0:06.0

Throughout this series we'll be sharing our love of wine and travel with a host of special guests

0:11.3

Join us as we pull the cork and twist the screw cap on some of our

0:14.6

favorite bottles and embark on a journey through the minds, lives and cultures

0:19.0

inspired by the wine route across the globe. Wine Times, a new episode every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts.

0:25.6

Bring it on, you've got me at the word wine. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast in The Times, I'm Matt Chorley.

0:40.4

Well, it's already been a cracking start to the new year in Westminster.

0:45.6

This week I'm joined by a stellar panel to cast an eye over what is happening in government,

0:50.9

the opposition and over in the White House.

0:53.3

Joining us, Chris Wilkins, former director of strategy and chief speechwriter for Theresa May,

0:58.0

cast his eye over the reshuffle.

1:00.3

Rachel Sylvester, Times Columnist, asks what's going on inside the Labour Party and David Aronovich, also a Times Colonist,

1:06.6

takes a look at the extraordinary revelations about Donald Trump.

1:10.4

As ever, let us know what you think about the podcast.

1:12.4

Tweet us at times red box find

1:14.0

us on Facebook or email red box at the times dot co-dot UK and we begin with Chris Wilkins.

1:20.0

Well the talk is of the Prime Minister's inability to make the changes she wanted in this

1:24.7

week's reshuffle.

1:26.0

The real story is the lack of ambition that lay behind the plan in the first place.

1:30.8

This is a government afflicted by caution, but as a former occupant of number 10 might have put it,

1:35.2

the Prime Minister is at her best when at her boldest.

1:38.2

So we recall this as the lower-ranking ministerial appointments are being made so who knows she might

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