The Exit Interviews: Steve Brine
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 57 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. Former Conservative minister Steve Brine tells Matt that the threats and abuse MPs face is getting worse, what happened when Labour mocked the Tories with a bus after the 2001 election, and why he thinks Liz Truss should keep quiet.
Plus: Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester talk about The Times' Health Commission inquiry into the crisis facing the health and social care system, whether children should have access to social media, and a new documentary about Rishi Sunak.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Chollie, and this is Politics Without the Boring Bits. |
| 0:08.0 | On today's episode, another fascinating exit interview today with another MP who's standing down at the next election |
| 0:14.2 | former Conservative Minister Steve Bryan he tells me why he's quitting the sort of |
| 0:18.8 | threats that politicians now face and delivers his pretty blunt verdict on his bosses having worked in |
| 0:26.1 | the Conservative Party for William Hay and then served under David Cameron, Theresa May, |
| 0:30.1 | Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and and now Wichesinac. |
| 0:33.3 | So that's coming up in just a moment. |
| 0:34.9 | We'll also hear from the economists today, Libby Pös and Rachel Sylvester |
| 0:38.7 | on the publication of the Times Health Commission |
| 0:41.3 | and what that might mean for the future of the NHS. |
| 0:43.8 | And don't forget if you like what you hear on the podcast, you can listen to me live with |
| 0:47.2 | politics without the boy bits on Times Radio, just listen to your DAB radio, |
| 0:52.1 | ask your smart speaker or download the Times Radio app. |
| 0:55.1 | That's Politics Without the Boring But it's Weekdays from 10. |
| 1:01.0 | Right, we begin with more food news. I'm sorry to say last week Rishi Sunak was |
| 1:07.3 | fasting for 36 hours before we admitted I do have the odd nut. Now this in from Kair Starmer on Sky Sports News. What do in your life to be sustainable to try and be a little bit more sort of |
| 1:25.3 | planet-minded? Well I've been a vegetarian now for best part of 30 years. Yeah, Ricci Sinax is a very... |
| 1:36.0 | Sorry, Rick Kairestama is a vegetarian. |
| 1:39.0 | He says, well, is he? |
| 1:41.0 | Long time listeners, remember when I got the exclusive and what |
| 1:43.9 | Kirst time I was eating for breakfast at labour conference. |
| 1:46.5 | A little bit of fish a little bit of cheese. A little bit of fish a little bit of |
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