The case for Tony Blair

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley is joined by Daniel Finkelstein, who argues only one person can lead a new Blairite party, and that’s Tony Blair. Sam Coates, The Times deputy political editor, tackles the most contentious issue in politics: trans rights. And Anne Ashworth, The Times money editor, wonders why ministers care so little about how much we are saving for old age.

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0:16.5	Trains now on Uber. I'm Matt Chorley.
0:30.0	A reminder before we begin that you can buy tickets to come and see us recording some
0:34.0	podcast live. We are in Liverpool on Sunday September the 23rd asking have we reached
0:39.5	peak Corbyn and then we are in Birmingham on Monday, October the 1st asking will the Tories
0:44.3	survive and should they. It's open to anyone who's a time subscriber go to my times plus
0:48.6	dot kowd. UK and then we've got two events on at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
0:53.7	We're recording a live podcast on Thursday, October 11th,
0:56.8	and then I'm doing a show called This Is Not Normal on Saturday, October the 13th.
1:00.4	Just go to the Cheltenham Festival's website.
1:03.0	Right, back to this week, and on this week's episode, Anne Ashworth, Times Money and
1:07.4	Property Editor on Warning Lights on the Pension's Dashboard.
1:10.6	Times Economist Daniel Finkelstein makes the case for Tony Blair, but first
1:15.3	Sam Coates, deputy political editor of the Times, tackles one of the most contentious issues
1:19.8	in politics.
1:22.1	If Boris Johnson is going to run as Britain's first populist Prime Minister,
1:27.0	how long can it be before we can expect a column from him on that most
1:31.0	trenchant of issues, trans rights.
1:35.7	Now, it's worth, I think, just beginning by saying that for a lot of people even addressing
1:39.7	the trans issue has been a sort of no-go area for fear of saying the wrong thing and blundering into a situation
1:46.2	who didn't want to and it can get incredibly heated incredibly quickly but just explain where you think we are at the
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