The rocket returns

Planet Normal

Theodora Louloudis

Society & Culture, News, Telegraph, Planet Normal, Current Affairs, News And Current Affairs

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As co-pilot Pearson circles Heathrow waiting for clearance to land, Liam is joined by Planet Normal Cosmonaut Supreme, Baroness Claire Fox.

There's been much madness to dissect since the rocket's last orbit. How is the new Labour government handling the Summer chaos?

Claire is frustrated that the Tory leadership contest seems to be leaving the country without a strong opposition and that it might leave the Conservatives unable to challenge the Labour party.

Whilst Liam is optimistic that new Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has the potential to pull off the reform the National Health Service needs to get back on track.

Stowing away on the rocket this week is author and Conservative Peer, Jon Moynihan who expresses his concern at Labour’s economic policies, saying they won’t create growth by ‘just cutting wages’.

And there is a delve into the fumbling Planet Normal mailbag which is overflowing from the recent Summer break…

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0:00.0	Five.
0:03.0	There is increasing cynicism, it seems to me, about whether labor are going to be able to pull off this kind of purest government of high standards.
0:11.0	That's certainly one thing I've noticed.
0:14.0	Four.
0:15.0	Gradually, Gordon Brown took control of the economy and started spending like a drunken sailor.
0:22.0	The reality is the NHS is utterly useless and it will take at least 20 years for us to get a proper European universal healthcare system.
0:31.0	We are seeing lots of government spending.
0:35.6	There is going to be more taxation.
0:38.6	Is this back to the 70s?
0:40.1	1.
0:41.1	We have lift off.
0:45.0	Welcome to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Allison Pearson and Me Liam Halligan. It's great to be back dear listeners after our summer break, but it turns
0:56.3	out Co-Pilot Pearson's return to the shores of Planet Normal has been further
1:00.4	delayed. She and her Turkish cat are still circling over he throw.
1:04.8	Balleton will be back next week her summer sun town more golden than ever.
1:09.5	In the meantime I'm joined once again by Planet Normal Cosmonaut Supreme, the head of the Academy of Ideas and the
1:15.8	Freethinking Policy Supremo of Parliament's Upper House, Baroness Claire Fox.
1:21.3	Claire is great to have you back.
1:22.9	And thanks so much for joining us again
1:24.7	on the rocket of Right Thinking.
1:26.8	It's really great to be back, Liam.
1:28.6	I'm delighted to have Planet Normal back as a listener.
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