The Kings Speech, Knives Out for Vaughan Gething and An Education on Schools Policy with Liz Bates
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Pod Save the UK
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
As parliamentarians were ironing their robes in preparation for the King’s Speech, Trump’s new running mate JD Vance shocked the UK with flippant remarks that have sent a shiver down the spine of the New Government. Nish and Coco are joined by Liz Bates to discuss Vance’s comments, the themes behind the surprise-free King’s Speech and two shock resignations - those of Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething and England manager Gareth Southgate.
Later, Nish and Coco catch up with two young people with lived experience of our crumbling education system and check in with Janeen Hayat, Director of Collective Action at the Fair Education Alliance. Education is one of the new government’s top five priorities - where the few short-term wins to be had are balanced out by some prickly policy problems.
Later, Liz returns to unveil an MP’s (not-so) shameful secret, the neverending Tory psychodrama and the reality TV show nobody was asking for.
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Liz Bates
Janeen Hayat
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| 0:00.0 | The King's Beach, Knives Out and An Education. |
| 0:04.8 | No, we're not talking through our favorite films. |
| 0:07.4 | We've got a stuffed episode of political news for you. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm Coco Khan. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Nishkumar and this is Pod Save the UK. |
| 0:13.7 | This week we're pouring over King Charles's address at the state opening of Parliament. |
| 0:18.0 | We're diving into what Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gethings Resignation might mean for Kiestama and we're exploring the challenges |
| 0:25.5 | and opportunities that Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, faces over the coming |
| 0:30.1 | years. |
| 0:31.1 | But first... |
| 0:32.1 | I was talking with a friend recently and we were talking about, you know, one of the big dangers in the world of course is nuclear proliferation, though of course the Biden administration doesn't care about it and I was |
| 0:44.1 | talking about you know what what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a |
| 0:49.1 | nuclear weapon and we were like maybe it's Iran you know maybe Pakistan already kind of counts and |
| 0:54.1 | then we sort of finally decided maybe it's actually the UK since labor just took over. |
| 0:58.8 | A fascinating first message from Donald Trump's newly appointed running mate, JD Vance in that clip from The Guardian. |
| 1:04.8 | To discuss this intriguing development, we're joined by the closest friend of the pod. |
| 1:10.8 | Welcome back to the show, Liz Bates. How are you? I guess I'm sort of more the official |
| 1:15.4 | pod stalker. We were just saying before it was kind of baby reindeer |
| 1:21.5 | vibes a little bit but you know maybe a sort of a gentler |
| 1:24.4 | version of that. |
| 1:25.4 | Potty reindeer. |
| 1:26.4 | Potty reindeer, yeah. |
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