The backbench rebel and the veteran hacks

Chopper's Politics

The Telegraph

Brexit, Political, News, Uk, Coronavirus, Politics, Parliament

4.2 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Fresh from rebellion in the Commons, Conservative MP for Bishop Auckland and one of Parliament’s youngest sitting politicians, Dehenna Davison joins Christopher Hope on his favourite table in the Red Lion pub. But does her recent vote against the PM’s Covid pass scheme indicate waning confidence in his leadership? How will the Tories make “levelling up” more than just a catchphrase? And is politics all she expected? Listen to find out.

Plus: after over three decades at Sky and ITV respectively, political journalists Adam Boulton and Libby Wiener are stepping down. They share their collective memory of a changing industry, a changing Westminster, and a changing Boris Johnson.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's politics.
0:02.0	Until very recently I would say that most of the people in the cabinet were definitely not as good as people who were in the cabinet when we started.
0:10.0	And I think that's a choice that Johnson has made.
0:13.6	I'm Christopher Hope, chopper to my friends,
0:16.4	the Telegraph's chief political correspondent.
0:20.0	Welcome to a festive edition of Chopper's Politics.
0:24.0	It does all feel a bit,
0:26.0	hmm, 2020, doesn't it?
0:29.0	To Christmas or not to Christmas,
0:31.0	to restrict or not to
0:33.2	to restrict. That is the question. The difference, well we moved from
0:37.6	plan A to plan B from Alpha through Delta to Omicron and from no jabs to lots of them as Boris Johnson
0:47.6	launched his Get Boosted Now campaign just this week. Now also this week MPs voted in favor of COVID
0:54.8	passes for nightclubs and large events but not all of them because Boris Johnson
0:59.6	faced the biggest rebellion of his premiership so far, when 128 MPs defied his so-called vaccine
1:08.0	passport scheme, and worryingly for him of those a hundred yes a hundred were conservatives and one of
1:16.3	those rebels joins me now in the redline pub I start every morning wake up in bed
1:21.0	just to quickly check my what's up and I'm straight on the telegraph.
1:23.3	Oh, pretty, pretty. DeHanna Davidson, the MP for Bishop Auckland, and one of the politicians elected in the
1:29.1	2019 crumbling of the so-called Red Wall, welcome to chopper's politics.
1:34.0	Really delighted to be here.
1:35.0	We're two years on from the Boris Johnson election landslide,
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