The case for Boris Johnson

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.1 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Matt Chorley is joined by Jo Tanner, a former adviser to Boris Johnson, who wonders if her old boss can ever get serious. Times columnist Matthew Parris thinks we could have two new PMs before the end of the year, and Hugo Rifkind says the power of protest cannot be ignored.

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0:47.0	Feel Good Travel. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on the Times.
0:59.5	I'm Matt Jolly back from a very short Easter break. I hope you enjoyed our whole week of
1:05.1	daily podcast before we went off. They're all still available to listen to.
1:09.1	However, we are back and we are talking about yes you guessed it Brexit but we'll also discuss what's
1:13.6	happening in the Tory leadership and protests do they ever work I'm delighted
1:17.8	by Joe Tana former spin doctor for Boris Johnson countless other politicians
1:21.6	are now much happier doing PR for people who aren't
1:24.8	trying to become Tory party leader. Hugo Rifkin, Times columnist, we'll be talking
1:28.7	about the Extinction Rebellion protests and others and do they ever work but first this is Matthew
1:34.4	Paris all this business about oh Brexit has gone away for the moment and we can all
1:39.3	relax and stop talking about it is absolute nonsense. The next few weeks, the next few months
1:45.1	are when the whole thing is really going to hot up. What's past all this stuff
1:50.1	about will her fourth, fifth meaningful vote or ever get through will just turn out to be perfectly trivial.
1:57.0	Mrs May's position is unsustainable.
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