The Exit Interviews: Craig Mackinlay
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Matt sits down with the MPs leaving Parliament to find out their highs and lows, their best and worst bosses, and the lessons they've learned from politics.
Tory MP Craig Mackinlay lost his hands and feet after suffering a life-threatening episode of sepsis, and Rishi Sunak's snap election came too soon for him to run for his seat again. He talks to Matt about how he kept working from his hospital bed, dreaming about his colleagues while he was in a coma, and adjusting to life with prosthetic limbs.
Plus: Columnists Rachel Sylvester and James Marriott discuss whether Nigel Farage's call for peace talks with Putin could halt Reform UK's surge in the polls, whether political interviewers should treat politicians with more respect and what Barcelona's ban on AirBnB means for tourism.
Columnists (03:20)
The Exit Interviews (24:34)
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:29.2 | Rising sea levels, extreme weather patterns, extinctions of species, our planet needs protecting. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Adam Vaughan the Environment Editor for The Times and this is Planet Hope from The Times, in partnership with Rolex and its perpetual planet initiative. |
| 0:44.9 | In this podcast we hear from leading experts from around the world who are committed to |
| 0:49.4 | finding solutions. These explorers, scientists, entrepreneurs and citizens are committed to a common goal to protect our home, Earth. |
| 0:58.0 | Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Matt Choli and this is Politics Without the Boimits coming up on today's episode |
| 1:11.7 | the final exit interview in our series with just |
| 1:15.3 | some of the more than a hundred people standing down at this election today we |
| 1:19.8 | hear from Craig McKinley the Conservative MP who took the decision not to stand again in this election, |
| 1:25.1 | after suffering from sepsis late last year and losing his hands and his feet. |
| 1:30.6 | We speak to him about his recovery and his highs and lows of his time in |
| 1:34.4 | parlour. Before that, in the columnist's Rachel Sylvester and James Marriott on whether or not |
| 1:40.0 | Nigel Farage has made a mistake by appearing to support Putin and should |
| 1:45.4 | air-B-N-B's be banned. And if you like what you're here on the podcast don't |
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| 1:57.4 | It's Politics Without The Boyin Bits, weekdays from 10. |
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