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The Week in 60 Minutes: Sunak the socialist & Douglas Murray on the Schofield saga

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🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

James Heale is joined by Kate Andrews and Sebastian Payne to discuss Rishi Sunak’s radical shift to the left. Also on the show, Quentin Letts on the navel gazing civil service; Esperanza Aguirre on the Spanish snap election; Douglas Murray on why we shouldn’t talk about Philip Schofield and Harry Pearson on British folk sport.

00:00 Welcome from James Heale
02:11 Has Sunak become a socialist? With Kate Andrews and Sebastian Payne
16:09 Does the civil service have a victimhood complex? With Quentin Letts
22:37 Why has the Spanish PM called a snap election? With Esperanza Aguirre
32:11 Why are Brits obsessed with salacious stories? With Douglas Murray
44:55 Which folk sports still exist? With Harry Pearson

Produced by Natasha Feroze

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV and broadcast on 1st to June.

0:17.3

I'm James Heel, the Spectators political correspondentrespondent, and your host for this week's episode.

0:22.2

Coming up on the programme. Is Rishi Turning Red? Kate Andrews has written about the Prime Minister's

0:28.0

new socialist transformation for the cover piece this week. She joins me on the show, alongside

0:32.8

Sebastian Payne, the director of the centre-right think tank onward. It's been a week of blob-on-blob fighting between the Cabinet Office and the COVID inquiry.

0:40.3

But is there a cultural problem within the civil service?

0:43.3

Joining me to discuss is Quentin Les.

0:45.3

There's trouble in Spain as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called for a snap general election in a bid to save his premiership.

0:52.3

Following a triumph for the opposition and the local

0:55.0

elections last week, can he regain control and what has been so controversial about the day he selected

1:00.0

to go to the polls? I'm joined by Esperanza Aguirre. Almost all of our British fears

1:06.0

will be familiar with the Philip Schofield saga over the past two weeks, a date I TV presenter

1:11.1

who dramatically resigned after nearly 40 years of working television following a sex scandal

1:16.1

at work.

1:17.3

But why are Brits so obsessed with salacious stories?

1:20.7

Douglas Murray thinks there's bigger fish to fry.

1:23.2

He'll be joining me on the show to discuss his article.

1:26.3

And finally, when Victorian schoolmasters and Oxford educated gentleman were taming football

1:31.0

and codifying cricket, games that dated back to the pagan era clung on in isolated pockets of rural

1:36.5

Britain. Do any of them still exist today? Harry Pearson has written a book on the weird and

1:41.3

wonderful world of folk sport, from cheese rolling to bottle kicking.

1:45.0

He reveals all on the show. Before we get going, thanks to our brilliant sponsors, Can Accord Genuity

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