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🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Spectator Radio, the Spectator's curated podcast collection. |
0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman. This week, what is the unfinished |
0:15.1 | business that Theresa May leaves for the next Prime Minister? Plus, why everyone is fascist or |
0:19.9 | Nazi these days? And last, who was |
0:22.7 | Alma Marla, the woman who entranced some of the most creative men in 20th century Europe? |
0:28.5 | First, as Theresa May hands over the keys to Downing Street, what burning injustices will she also |
0:34.1 | hand over to her successor? I write in this week's cover piece that there's nothing funny about this question. |
0:39.5 | There is a series of hard decisions on domestic crises that the May government has put off for three years. |
0:45.3 | From social care to housing, to energy, HS2 and rising crime rates, |
0:49.6 | the real question for the Tory leadership contenders isn't who has the balls to deliver Brexit, |
0:53.8 | but who has the balls to deliver Brexit, |
0:58.4 | but who has the strength of character to sift through that scary intro. |
1:04.0 | To understand just how serious the situation is, as well as who, if anyone, might solve those problems, I'm joined by housing expert Alex Morton from the Centre for Policy Studies, |
1:09.4 | who used to work in the Number 10 policy unit, |
1:12.0 | as well as Hugh Pym, health editor for the BBC. So Alex, you've worked in number 10 on domestic policy. |
1:20.4 | You know how hard it is to get domestic policy out. Am I being unfair to Theresa May in my piece |
1:25.4 | by saying that a nuclear winter has descended upon policy under her premiership? |
1:30.3 | I think a little bit harsh, but only a little bit. |
1:32.8 | And in the sense of it's hard to see, you know, in the last three years, really what's come through as a big policy push. |
1:41.2 | And one of the things that the CPS we've been trying to do is come up with some big, |
1:44.8 | exciting ideas, because, you know, if you watch, for example, the leadership candidates' videos, |
1:49.9 | they often talk as if they're in opposition. So they're saying, there are all these problems |
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