The Exit Interviews: Nickie Aiken
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Matt Chorley sits down with MPs leaving Parliament at the next election to find out about their highs and lows, their best and worst bosses, and the lessons they've learned from politics.
Conservative MP Nickie Aitken explains why she's standing down after five years, how much Liz Truss added to her mortgage, and what it's like being the MP for MPs.
Plus: Columnists Rachel Sylvester and Tom McTague discuss Lee Anderson, how Nick Clegg became 'The Foreign Secretary of Facebook', and why Rishi Sunak has revived Gordon Brown's regional cabinet meetings.
Columnists (04:30)
The Exit Interviews (23:00)
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| 0:00.0 | You can do this. |
| 0:06.0 | You're Tom Daly. You know the routine. |
| 0:10.0 | 30 degrees with a gentle spin, knitted jumpers in first. |
| 0:13.5 | Pirouette to the trunks, detergent. |
| 0:16.1 | Perform better on Sundays. |
| 0:18.5 | Get half-price electricity, 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. with Pixe A from British Gas. |
| 0:23.0 | Proud partners of Team G.B. and Paralympics G. B. |
| 0:26.0 | ends 31st of March. Ties and sees apply. Smart meter required. |
| 0:30.0 | Granny and Grandpa had their hearts set on getting Jess a drum kit for her birthday. |
| 0:35.0 | And because they bought it on their Barclay card, they were rewarded too. |
| 0:39.0 | It was music to their ears. |
| 0:41.0 | Same can't be said for mom and dad. |
| 0:43.0 | What you buy is your business. |
| 0:47.0 | Rewarding you is ours. |
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| 0:53.4 | 28.9% APR representative variable, |
| 0:55.9 | subject to application, financial circumstances |
| 0:58.0 | and borrowing history. |
| 0:59.0 | Tees and sees apply. Hello, I'm Matt Cholly, and this is Politics Without the Boring Bits. |
| 1:10.3 | Coming up on today's episode, another another exit interview because the number of MPs |
| 1:15.5 | standing down at the next election just keeps on rising today Nicky Aiken who was |
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