The Exit Interviews: Harriet Harman
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Matt 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 their time in politics.
Harriet Harman has been an MP for four decades and held key roles in the Labour Party and in government. A long-time campaigner for women, she tells Matt why she's embarrassed Labour is still yet to elect a female leader, why Starmer shouldn't make decisions in an all-male room, and why she once hid from Margaret Thatcher in a toilet.
Plus: Columnists Rachel Sylvester and Dominic Lawson discuss the government's plan to ban disposable vapes, whether Trump admires Putin and what Matt stands to gain from following Rishi Sunak's 36 hour-fast diet.
Columnist Panel (04:13)
The Exit Interviews: Harriet Harman (25:25)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Surely, and this is Politics Without the Boring Bix. |
| 0:08.3 | Coming up on today's episode, our series, the exit interviews continues. |
| 0:13.4 | Today, former Labour leader Harriet Harmon, on a warning to kiss starman not to have only men in meetings. |
| 0:19.7 | The day that she saw Margaret Thatcher bearing down on her newborn baby and what she wants to do next. |
| 0:27.4 | And whether or not she'll ever really let her hair down to the interview with Harriet |
| 0:30.5 | Harmon coming up. |
| 0:31.5 | We'll also have the columnist today with Rachel Sylvester and Dominic with how it |
| 0:33.6 | it's coming up but also have the economists today with Rachel Sylvester and |
| 0:34.6 | Dominic Lawson on vaping and fasting I'm fasting you'll find out why in a minute |
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| 0:52.3 | weekdays from 10. |
| 0:57.0 | Now, it's going to be a long, long day. |
| 1:02.0 | So, it was reported at the Sunday Times yesterday that Ritchie |
| 1:06.0 | Sunac's self-control extends to fasting for a straight 36 hours at the start of each week. |
| 1:15.0 | Friends of the Prime Minister told the paper he does not eat between 5 PM on a Sunday afternoon |
| 1:20.4 | until 5 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. So in a fit of peak I decided to fast like |
| 1:30.0 | Ritchie Sunak bringing forward our Sunday roast so I could start on time. |
| 1:40.0 | Well, that's been done. On five o'clock on Sunday night, I'm going to fast light wishes sooner for 36 hours. |
| 1:49.0 | Apparently he does every week. |
| 1:50.0 | Folks' play more is always a bit irritable in the afternoon. |
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