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Politics Unpacked

The Press Gallery

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What is the press gallery? Hundreds of journalists across different media organisations are now able to report from the Houses of Parliament. We take you back to 1738 where journalists had to fight to be able to report on what went on in the House of Commons with News UK archivist Nick Mays, former Political Editor of the Times, Philip Webster and Times Radio's Carole Walker. Plus columnists chat with FORMEL, James Forsyth and Melanie Reid, on resignations and scrapping exams.

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0:00.0

From jet engines to space rockets, telephones to computers, the world has seen spectacular

0:06.1

change in the last hundred years, and the pace of progress is getting faster and faster.

0:12.0

From electric cars to the Metaverse, drone deliveries to climate solutions and genetic

0:16.6

sequencing, we're investing in the companies that are not just changing the world today,

0:21.4

but are also shaping the future.

0:23.8

The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust managed by Bayley Gifford, invest, in progress,

0:29.1

capital at risk.

0:30.1

Hello, this is your box podcast, I'm Matt Jolli, I'm still in my job, even if nobody

0:42.0

else in politics is today.

0:44.8

Coming up on today's podcast, we go behind the scenes in the press gallery, I was back

0:50.0

in the press gallery in the House of Commons for the first time in months this week, and

0:53.7

it turns out journalists only have their own dedicated seats in the House of Commons.

0:58.3

Thanks to the Times, we'll find out why, as we open up the history books with the Times

1:02.8

archivist Nick Mays, we also got Cowell Walker and Phil Webster taking a trip down memory

1:07.0

lane too.

1:08.0

At a moment, we'll have our columnists, James Forsyth and Melanie Reed, but given all

1:12.9

of the shenanigans which have happened this week in number ten, I thought I'd just

1:16.8

walk you through where we actually are, is to who is still working in downstream.

1:23.7

Yes, we're going to take a look through the five ministers team and see if they are still

1:35.1

in number ten.

1:36.1

Manero Mercer, then named by Boris Johnson in 2020 is one of the five most influential

1:40.5

women in his life alongside Malala, Kate Bush, Buduka and his grandmother.

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