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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

The ‘Freedom’ To Be Selfish

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.7909 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

I reflect on the state of the modern Conservative party when so many of its MPs fervently oppose modest protections against Covid at a point when the virus is raging once more…plus brilliant questions, reports on the recent live shows and much more.

Recorded at Podmasters Studios. Audio production by Robin Leeburn

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0:00.0

Thank you. Thank you. Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

0:34.3

Thank you so much for tuning in, wherever you are in the UK and around the world.

0:39.8

And as ever, well, it doesn't need saying, does it? We have got so much to cram in in our time together

0:47.1

today. And like last week, I'm doing this from a beautiful studio. So you should be able to relax

0:53.5

about the quality of the sound.

0:55.2

It's going to be like listening to a symphony.

0:58.1

Anyway, first of all, if it's okay with you, I'll tell you what we're going to be doing in our time together.

1:04.1

I'll give you a report back from the live shows last week, which included dramatic votes on predictions about the fate of Boris Johnson.

1:14.5

Then, again, if it's okay with you, I'd like to reflect a bit about what the epic drama we are

1:23.2

living through tells us about the modern Conservative Party party because I think it's been an

1:28.9

overlooked dimension. You know, there's so much focus these days on, you know, what Starm

1:35.9

are doing about labor? Oh, Labor, this, labor, they've got to change. Let's have a look at the

1:40.8

modern conservative party in the midst of this saga. And then we've got some

1:46.9

fantastic questions from many of you and there to come as well. Before I give the report on

1:54.3

the live shows, just a reminder, we've got kind of a few more days to do this. A lot of you,

2:00.5

I hope, who emailed me asking for stickers with messages for the book,

2:06.3

the prime ministers we never had as a Christmas present.

2:09.2

Hopefully a lot of you will have had the stickers.

2:11.7

A lot more, I'm going to do some today.

2:13.8

A lot more will have them later on in this week.

2:17.4

And there's just time if you are looking

2:20.4

for Christmas presents. It is Christmas sorted. The prime ministers we never had from Rab Butler to

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