Summer Special - Prime Ministers and Their Special Confidants: David Cameron

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this latest episode Steve Richards reflects on the lessons so far from a vibrant Edinburgh Festival and introduces an episode previously released for Patreon backers on the significance of Prime Ministers appointing allies who they have known and admired for many years. Their chosen confidants tell us much about the character of a PM. In this case we look at the instincts of David Cameron as he turned to his close friend Steve Hilton. Support Rock N Roll Politics on Patreon and get exclusive benefits including bonus episodes and much more: https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Rock N Roll Politics is live at the Edinburgh Festival from Sunday August 13th to Saturday August 26th with a different show every day. Tickets here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/steve-richards-presents-rock-n-roll-politics At the start of a new political year Rock N Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on September 13th. Tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/rock-n-roll-politics-9/ The New European sponsors Rock & Roll Politics - to get full access to the site for just £1 per week PLUS a £25 voucher to spend in their online store, visit www.theneweuropean.co.uk/rock Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now a special festive announcement.
0:03.6	How about this for a Christmas present suggestion?
0:06.3	A present to you from someone who might be mistakenly planning to buy you, say,
0:11.5	Nadine Doris is the plot, which you don't want.
0:14.6	This year, instead of them making a panic visit to Waterstones,
0:18.4	why not subtly suggest they get you the gift of 12 months
0:23.6	Patreon support for rock and roll politics instead? Ordinarily, a year's support gets you 10%
0:30.6	off the monthly rate, but in our special Black Friday sale, you can now get 20% off.
0:41.1	And it will be one of those life-enhancing presence for you. You get the podcast early, without ads, plus lots of Patreon exclusive content.
0:49.3	And then they don't have to stagger home with Churchill's complete history of the English-speaking peoples,
0:55.6	which you don't want either.
0:57.3	That's 20% off a year of Patreon support for rock and roll politics in our Black Friday sale.
1:04.0	Why not share the link in the show notes in the family WhatsApp,
1:08.1	or drop a heavy hint that they should search Patriot Rock and Roll Politics
1:12.6	podcast.
1:13.9	Hurrah!
1:14.8	Christmas is sorted.
1:24.4	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me, Steve Richards. Thanks so much indeed for
1:30.3	tuning in and here we are still in the summer recess. I'm in Edinburgh about halfway through
1:36.7	the run of shows and it's been very interesting. The audiences have been fantastic and engaged
1:43.1	and already halfway. It's a different show every day. So it's like a sort of box set over 14 episodes. And at sort of half time, we are already kind of delving deep. The audiences make a prediction each day. And it's interesting, the contrast with last summer,
2:01.1	just to give one example a year ago,
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