The Exit Interviews: Dehenna Davison
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Matt Chorley sits down with MPs leaving Parliament at the next election to talk about their highs and lows, their best and worst bosses, and the lessons they've learned from politics.
Conservative MP Dehenna Davison tells Matt why starting life in Westminster in her mid-20s was a steep learning curve, how suffering with chronic migraines affected her work and why she admires Liz Truss.
Plus: Columnists Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester discuss the government's move to ban mobile phones in English schools, Alexei Navalny's courage, and whether the next election could be decided in the pub.
Columnists (02:09)
The Exit Interviews (16:10)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Chorley, and this is Politics Without the Boring Bit. |
| 0:08.0 | Massive thank you to Patrick McGuire for looking after the place last week. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm back in the hot seat now right the way through |
| 0:14.0 | until Easter with plenty happening in politics. I assume by the time we get to |
| 0:19.0 | Easter even more MPs will have announced they're standing down more people who can join me for their exit |
| 0:24.4 | interview on today's episode. Tory MP and Foreign Minister Deanna Davidson on why she's quitting |
| 0:30.0 | the Commons just five years after becoming an MP in 2019. |
| 0:35.0 | A really fascinating interview from someone arguably at the beginning of their political |
| 0:38.9 | career giving it up already. |
| 0:41.1 | We'll also have the columnist Libby Pervis and Rachel Sylvester on |
| 0:46.0 | another announcement to ban mobile phones in schools. And don't forget if you like |
| 0:50.4 | what you're here on the podcast you can join me for Politics About the Boring Bits live on Times Radio, |
| 0:54.0 | just listen to us on your D. A.B. radio, on your smart speaker, or download the Times |
| 0:58.6 | Radio, that's Politics Without the Boring Bits, weekdays from 10. Unlike everyone in politics, we've now got access to our what's apps. |
| 1:10.0 | Unlike Ritchie Sunak... |
| 1:12.0 | I'm not a prolific user of WhatsApp. |
| 1:14.5 | Unlike Nicholas Sturgeon. |
| 1:15.8 | I don't think I've ever at WhatsApp. |
| 1:17.5 | Yes, we've got access to our WhatsApp's. |
| 1:20.0 | This is government by WhatsApp. |
| 1:22.0 | No, this is radio by what's up here. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, you're not averse to sending what's-aps and texts 24 hours a day, Mr Cummings. |
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