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Politics Unpacked

The Art Of The Political Lunch

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Very few people in Westminster have had as many lunches as The Sunday Times' Chief political commentator Tim Shipman.


So for the final day of food week, he settles his bet for a big lunch by joining Matt at Hawksmoor in Borough Market, to discuss wining and dining ministers, how he is getting on with his book, and the senior politician who had a cheesy doggie bag.


Plus: Columnists India Knight and James Marriot chat about cheering up, beans and what it takes to be a professional beer taster 


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0:00.0

Hello, this is the Redbox Podcast. I'm Matt Shorty bringing the best of my Times Radio

0:08.3

show. You can listen live Monday to Friday, 10 to 1, on your DAB Radio, on your Smart

0:12.7

Speaker, or on the Times Radio app. Although, not next week, all the week after, because

0:16.8

I've bought from the holidays. So, Patrick McGuire is going to be looking after you on the

0:20.0

radio and right here on the Redbox Podcast, as he steps down from being editor of the

0:26.5

Redbox Morning, email the last bit, takes out the button in a couple of weeks' time. So,

0:31.0

if you're out of time, subscribe, just go to the Times.co.dk4 slash Redbox and you can

0:34.4

get Redbox in your inbox every morning. Lovely. Right, we've come to the end of Food Week.

0:39.3

It's got a boozy. A boozy end to Food Week. Coming up on today's episode, the art of

0:44.4

the political lunch. Few people in Westminster have had as many lunches as Tim Shipman, the

0:49.4

Chief Principal commentator of the Sunday Times. So, he actually lost a bet with me. We were

0:54.2

doing PMQs a few weeks ago. He bet me the Keir Starmer would mention Boris Johnson. He

0:59.3

didn't. So, he won't be lunch. So, he won't be lunch. We took a couple of microphones

1:03.0

and over lunch we discussed the art of taking ministers for lunch and the state of politics

1:07.6

and Tim's book and much else besides. Hopefully, it's a fun lesson. But to be honest, I don't

1:12.5

care. It was nice to have lunch. In a moment, we'll have the columnist as well and beer

1:16.5

tasting. Yes, there's a lot of booze. But first, as we always do on the Friday, let's

1:20.0

take a look at what we learned this week. We learned that in Food Week, this still doesn't

1:26.6

quite work. Food Week. Food Week. Food Week. Food Week. We learned that nobody who works

1:32.0

on my show remembers this ad first. We learned that Tory and Pete Robert Goodwell is definitely

1:38.3

looking in your trolley. Sometimes what people have got in their trolley's and then

1:41.7

see, you know, those people might be sort of slightly overweight and think, well, no

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