The Exit Interviews: Edward Timpson
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Matt sits down with MPs leaving Parliament at the next election to find out their highs and lows, their best and worst bosses, and the lessons they've learned from politics.
Conservative Edward Timpson remembers arriving in Westminster after a by-election circus where he was characterised as a Tory toff, his achievements as a minister, and he explains why he never went into the family business.
Plus: Columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss whether other potential defectors will be put off following the example of Natalie Elphicke, the link between obesity and sick-not culture, and whether we're too quick to blame technology for our own failings.
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| 1:01.5 | It's another exit interview now more than a hundred |
| 1:03.8 | MPs so they're standing down at the next election today we hear from |
| 1:07.0 | Edward Timpson who's been a toy MP not once but twice in two different seats |
| 1:11.0 | we'll find out why he's standing down and get his verdict |
| 1:15.1 | on his former bosses. Before that the columnist Libby Paris and Rachel Sylvester |
| 1:19.7 | on whether or not defectors are always treated as traitors. |
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