The Covid Inquiry and The Fatal Chaos in Johnson's Number 10

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Covid struck the UK at the worst possible time. Johnson was governing amidst casual chaos and yet he was popular and this popularity made him dangerously powerful. Neither his subservient cabinet nor a parliament with a big Tory Majority dared to challenge him. Now we are discovering quite how bad things were. Plus brilliant questions on Keir Starmer and the Israel Gaza conflict, Brexit, the leadership of Heath compared with Sunak and whether I want to be an MP. Rock & Roll Politics -the Xmas Special is live at Kings Place on Dec 18th when we look back at another wild year and look ahead to 2024, the likely election year. Tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/rock-n-roll-politics-11/ Support Rock & Roll Politics on Patreon and get exclusive benefits including bonus episodes and much more The latest episode in the series on political rivals is Denis Healy vs. Tony Benn. Other series include epic general elections, prime ministers' chosen advisers and apparent government cock ups, all exclusively available to subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Steve Richards' book 'Turning Points' is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turning-Points-Crisis-Change-Britain/dp/1035015358/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1695642519&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Richards&s=books&sr=1-3 The New European sponsors Rock & Roll Politics - to get full access to the site for just £1 per week PLUS a £25 voucher to spend in their online store, visit www.theneweuropean.co.uk/rock Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know what that is.
0:04.0	An ice cold beer.
0:07.0	What's different?
0:09.0	It's Budweiser.
0:11.0	Food longer for a refreshing, smooth taste.
0:15.0	Like no other.
0:20.0	Cheers to that. Budweiser, like no other.
0:22.6	Cheers to that. Budweiser, like no other.
0:25.6	Please drink responsibly.
0:26.6	For the facts, visit drinkaware.co.co.
0:28.6	UK.
0:33.6	Hello and welcome to rock and Roll Politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.
0:42.7	Thanks so much for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed around the rest of the world.
0:49.0	And I think even more than usual, we are going to be cramming in a heck of a lot in our time together.
0:57.5	Some brilliant questions on Israel, Gaza, and many other topics too.
1:03.5	And I will be reflecting if it's okay with you at the beginning, but it kind of segues into Israel, Gaza and Kirstama's current
1:13.9	position via the COVID inquiry. And what we can learn in terms of domestic British politics
1:24.2	more widely, because by the time you hear this, there will be more evidence, I think,
1:30.7	which will alarm us all. It's really worth following the COVID inquiry. This week, it's going to
1:36.9	generate a lot of headlines, but it deserves to have done so already. Before all of that,
1:43.6	oh yeah, by the way, questions on all kinds of things like,
1:46.9	would I have ever wanted to be an MP? I'm going to get to that question this week. And for those
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