The Political Editors: Roland Watson
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
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🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Political Editors is half a century of politics told by the people who wrote the first draft of history for the Times.
Over the festive period we're re-releasing the entire series.
After covering the US for the Times in the aftermath of 9/11 - and interviewing President Bush in the White House - Roland Watson returned to the "goldfish bowl" of Westminster, becoming the paper's political editor in time for the 2010 election. In the fifth episode, he tells Matt about Gordon Brown's prickly relationship with the press, making contacts in the coalition, and how David Cameron sowed the seeds of Brexit.
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| 0:00.0 | Has the side hustle gone all laid back? |
| 0:03.3 | Your plan's gone way off track. |
| 0:07.1 | Or are the orders flowing, but it's hard to keep going? |
| 0:10.9 | It's time to bring the fire back, instead of getting sidetracked. |
| 0:15.4 | It's time to crack a Costa. |
| 0:18.9 | Side hustle without the struggle. |
| 0:21.8 | Try a can or bottle of silky smooth Costa coffee latte today. |
| 0:26.5 | Crack a Costa. |
| 0:31.6 | Hello, I'm Matt Chorley, and this is Politics Without the Boring Pits, |
| 0:39.9 | revisiting our series, The Political Editors, with the people who wrote the first draft of political history over the last half century. |
| 0:47.8 | In today's episode, it's Roland Watson, political of the Times, from 2010 to 2013. |
| 0:56.8 | I don't think that other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos. |
| 1:02.2 | Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. |
| 1:05.8 | Without a way! |
| 1:07.4 | It is time to put up or shut up. |
| 1:10.3 | A new dawn and broken. This is a decisive moment up or shut up. A new dawn has broken, I don't know. |
| 1:12.6 | This is a decisive moment for the world economy. |
| 1:14.6 | Now the decision has been made to leave, we need to find the best way. |
| 1:18.6 | Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. |
| 1:22.6 | I have been repeatedly assured that there was no party. |
| 1:25.6 | Growth, growth and growth. |
| 1:29.0 | Some mistakes were made. |
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