Tony Blair on Qatar, Starmer and kissing Tories
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Sir Tony Blair speaks exclusively with The News Agents.
He has words that may surprise Matt Hancock and Liz Truss, and a gentle message for Keir Starmer to go further.
He talks about gesture politics over the banning of Qatar state advertising - and he tells us he thinks he's kissed at least one Tory.
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Video: Will Gibson-Smith
Social Media: Georgia Foxwell
Production: Sophie Snelling & Gabriel Radus
Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | I don't know if you've noticed soaps, but there are now quite a lot of former prime ministers. |
| 0:17.5 | Apparently they've closed the membership list for people wanting to join. |
| 0:20.3 | There are now seven |
| 0:21.1 | ex-prime ministers, which is a record in British history. Visibly, it was very striking, wasn't it, |
| 0:28.1 | that morning at the Senataph, where you saw all of them lining up. And I think we suddenly |
| 0:32.5 | realized, oh my God, Liz Tross is going to be at the Senate off every single year, forever. |
| 0:38.7 | Yeah. And it's a really odd club to be part of when you're... |
| 0:43.8 | Tell us about it. Yeah, because I was obviously Prime Minister for many years. |
| 0:47.3 | Well, it must be really weird to be an ex-Prime minister and try and carve out what your life means and what it looks like. |
| 0:53.2 | So we thought on the news agents, |
| 0:56.3 | we would talk to the longest serving of those ex-prime ministers, the one who did 10 years |
| 1:03.6 | in government. Tony Blair. Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:11.6 | The news agents. Tony Blair, welcome to our podcast. Thank you. Welcome to the Newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:13.2 | Tony Blair, welcome to our podcast. |
| 1:14.9 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:15.7 | It's very popular, you know. |
| 1:17.2 | Well, thank you. |
| 1:17.9 | Thank you very much for inviting me. |
| 1:19.5 | I hope I don't make it less popular. |
| 1:23.5 | Huge amount to discuss. |
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