Hello, this is the Webbox podcast. I'm Matt Chawley back in Times Radio Towers. No

away days for us, but Wishi Sunak is planning a cabinet away day this week. They're all

off to check us. The next week, Keir Starmer's taking Labour's shadow cabinet for some

corporate team building or something. So today we take a look at political away days.

Are they ever a good idea? From Tony Blair's football matches, it checkers to William

Hague trying to get Tory MPs not to dress weirdly when told to dress down. Brexit's secretary,

David Davis, on the moment he quit after checkers as well. And the moment a Lib Dem cabinet

minister quit. And then the first person to address the party was a man dressed as a

B. All that is coming up on the podcast is a really great list. And at first, I was

the only kickoff with our columnist panel. The colonists would Libby Raichy, Libby

Purvis and Rachel Sylvester, on Times Radio. Yes, we say Vagan Boynton, Libby Purvis,

morning, Libby. Morning, I've been a keynote speaker at a corporate away day. Oh, demotivation,

my brother said I was a demotivational speaker. Yeah, well, maybe Wishi Sunak is having his

away day checkers on Thursday. Maybe he could, he could line you up. I'll pop by here.

Pop by. Yeah. Morning, Rachel Sylvester.

Morning. Have you ever been? I've never been on an away day. But what I want to know is

what they're all going to wear. That's the terrible thing with politicians. They always

end up wearing terrible jumpers and horrendous casual gear. I don't know on their away days.

Yeah, we're here for William Hague a bit later on where he says exactly that when he

instigated the taking all Tory MPs away. In part because there was so few of them when

he was leader that they could all fit on hotel. He said the worst bit about it was telling

them to dress casually. And actually, they got themselves in real knots about, you know,

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