The Not Quite Prime Ministers
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
History is written by (and often about) the winners, but the lives and careers of Britain's political losers can be just as telling. Leaders of the Opposition was a long-running feature on Matt's Times Radio show, and now author and historian Nigel Fletcher has written the book explaining what they can tell us about modern politics.
Plus: Columnists India Knight and James Marriott on Rishi Sunak's plans for a British baccalaureate, why we need more expertise in public debate, and how to stop yourself being digitally re-animated once you're dead.
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| 1:09.2 | of my Times' Radio Show. It's politics up the Boeing bits Monday to Friday, 10-till-one, |
| 1:13.4 | on your DAB radio, on your smart speaker, or download the Times Radio app. Coming up on today's |
| 1:19.6 | episode, regular listeners to the radio show will remember that last year we counted down every |
| 1:26.0 | leader of the opposition who didn't make it to number 10 with Nigel Fletcher. Well, as a result of |
| 1:31.4 | that, he's turned it into a book. Somebody's written the forward for it, but it's not for me to say. |
| 1:36.4 | Anyway, Nigel Fletcher is back talking about his book on all the people who didn't quite make it |
| 1:42.6 | being Prime Minister, and that's our big thing coming up in a moment. We've got James Marriott |
| 1:47.2 | and Indianite talking all sorts of nonsense as well, but first, as we always do on a Friday, |
| 1:52.0 | let's take a look at what we learned this week. We learned that Rupert Murdoch is stepping back as |
| 2:05.4 | our big, big boss to be replaced by his son, Lockland, which is excellent news all bad and not |
| 2:10.1 | something to make jokes about. Good morning, boss. We learned from Gillian Hardhat Keegan, |
| 2:14.5 | that the kids just loved that their proper schools are falling down. I've been to a number of |
| 2:18.4 | these schools and seen children and met children in the quarter cabins, and in fact, at the first |
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