Sunak's first 100 days: Promises, scandals and strikes
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak’s been in Number 10 for 100 days. So how’s he doing? What’s he been doing? And with Labour leading in the polls, can the UK’s third prime minister in six and a half months turn his and his party’s fortunes around?
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| 0:00.0 | It's a political convention that began 90 years ago. |
| 0:09.8 | On a warm evening in July 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sat down for one of his |
| 0:17.0 | fireside chats using the medium of radio to reassure America about the progress he'd |
| 0:23.4 | made in his first 100 days in office. |
| 0:27.2 | My friend, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about |
| 0:33.3 | what has been done in the last few days. |
| 0:36.7 | And America loved it. |
| 0:39.7 | I heard the President speak over the radio. |
| 0:41.6 | It gave me such a thrill. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm sure. |
| 0:44.4 | Roosevelt, speed, was of the essence. |
| 0:49.1 | President-elect Roosevelt says, |
| 0:51.1 | My judgment, we are in the midst of an emergency, at least equal to that of war. |
| 1:00.8 | Roosevelt had come to power in the Great Depression. |
| 1:05.8 | That's why those first 100 days were so important. |
| 1:09.5 | He had to get more done than most presidents would in a full term. |
| 1:14.0 | The White House is the center of a Washington whirlwind as the 100 days begin. |
| 1:18.8 | Members of the administration rush from FDR's office to the Capitol building and back again. |
| 1:28.9 | And that's how it began. |
| 1:31.1 | Since then, every President and Prime Minister has been judged on those crucial first 100 |
| 1:37.4 | days. |
| 1:39.4 | Assuming they make it that far. |
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