The price of Johnson's toxic Downing Street culture
Political Currency
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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It was Dominic Cummings' turn at the Covid inquiry this week and - as George predicted - we heard about the misogynistic language being used in Boris Johnson's Number 10. What does it reveal about the toxic culture operating in Westminster at that time? And why this isn't ancient history for the Tories.
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| 1:33.0 | Another busy week lots to talk about and you have just come back from America, haven't you? |
| 1:40.0 | Another busy week lots to talk about and you have just come back from America, haven't you? |
| 1:44.3 | I was in America out at Harvard Monday and Tuesday. I've been a fellow at the |
| 1:48.0 | Kennedy School of Government for the last nine years and I go out once a semester, meet of students we did a seminar guess what on |
| 1:54.1 | regional policy we discussed our paper again this weekend. Do you insist on your |
| 1:58.1 | students calling you professor? Absolutely not no one ever calls me professor |
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