The row over Number 10 parties during the 2020 lockdown
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re devoting the episode to the “partygate” row which has blown up in Westminster. After the prime minister revealed he attended a party, calls for his resignation grew in and outside of the Tory party. Can he survive? Does his fate lie in the hands of a senior civil servant? Will Rishi Sunak walk out of the cabinet? And where does the story go next?
We’ll be unpacking all the news and drama with a top line-up of guests: political editor George Parker, chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley and special guest Hannah White, deputy director of the Institute for Government think-tank.
Presented by Sebastian Payne. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Howie Shannon. The sound engineers were Breen Turner and Sean McGarrity
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm calling about sausage. |
| 0:03.9 | Sausage. |
| 0:04.9 | Sausage. |
| 0:05.9 | My dog. |
| 0:06.9 | Oh, oh. |
| 0:07.9 | Is it normal sausage chases seagulls? |
| 0:09.7 | Well, is it normal sausage bugs in his sleep? |
| 0:12.3 | Yes. |
| 0:13.3 | Is it normal he chases golf balls? |
| 0:15.3 | Yes, don't worry. |
| 0:17.3 | Sausage is perfectly normal. |
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| 0:20.4 | With pet phones veterinary professionals, on hand to help you and your pets 24-7 to find |
| 0:25.2 | out more, search more than pet insurance, because life is more than insurance. |
| 0:29.9 | Boris Johnson's future hangs in the balance. |
| 0:35.9 | After further revelations about lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street led the Prime Minister |
| 0:41.0 | to say sorry for his behaviour. |
| 0:43.6 | Mr Speaker, I want to apologise. |
| 0:47.5 | I know that millions of people across this country have made extraordinary sacrifices over |
| 0:53.4 | the last 18 months. |
| 0:55.4 | I know the anguish that they have been through, unable to mourn their relatives, unable |
| 1:01.2 | to live their lives as they want, or to do the things they love. |
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