The Exit Interviews: Mark Drakeford
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Former Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson has defected to Reform UK, giving the party its first MP. Matt discusses the significance of the move with columnists Trevor Phillips and Libby Purves, and former minister Paul Scully.
Plus: In the latest Exit Interview, outgoing First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford explains why he is standing down and why he had a difficult relationship with successive Tory prime ministers.
Lee Anderson joins Reform (03:13)
The Exit Interview (16:30)
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| 1:10.7 | episode, the exit interviews continue. |
| 1:13.3 | Today with a special episode |
| 1:15.2 | with the outgoing First Minister of Wales, |
| 1:17.5 | Mark Drakeford, his successor named later this week. |
| 1:20.7 | He looks back on his six years in charge and lifts the lid on his slightly |
| 1:25.2 | fractious relationship with all of the Tory Prime Ministers he's had to deal with. |
| 1:29.1 | Before that the columnist panel Libby Purvis and Trevor Phillips reacting to the news that Lee Anderson |
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