Tussle in No10, Lee Cain's Resignation and the PM's relationship with the President-Elect
The Peston Podcast
Faraz Aghaei
4.6 • 20 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
❶ What does the resignation of Lee Cain, the PM's Director of Communications, mean for Dominic Cummings?
❷ Is the vaccine going to save us? At what point will our lives be allowed to return to normal?
❸ Can Britain establish a relationship with America, considering the PM has never met the President-elect?
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Peston podcast, with Lee Kane, the Prime Minister's Director of Communications being forced out tonight, what does that mean for the Prime Minister's |
| 0:22.6 | most powerful aid, Dominic Cummings? Is he going to quit? Two, that great vaccine, at what point |
| 0:31.2 | will our lives be allowed to return to normal? And how can Britain establish a relationship with an American president who the Prime Minister |
| 0:43.3 | has never met and where they have completely different views on what Britain's relationship |
| 0:49.3 | with the EU should be? |
| 0:52.3 | I'll be talking about all this and more with the work and pension |
| 0:56.0 | secretary to raise coffee with our former ambassador in Washington, Kim Darik, with the |
| 1:02.0 | eminent author and campaigner Naomi Klein and the biggest political beast of our age. |
| 1:09.0 | Ken Clark, the former Chancellor, as well as Labor's Angela Eagle. |
| 1:15.7 | I'm delighted to be joined by Ken Clark. It's amazing how many governments, prime ministers, |
| 1:22.3 | are defined by their powerful aides. There is a lot of talk tonight at the central government that Dominic |
| 1:31.0 | Cummings may quit. How significant, in your view, would that be, were that to happen? |
| 1:37.3 | Well, it's all developed in the last 20, 30 years. I mean, there all have been powerful aids. |
| 1:41.6 | I can get by that, you know, Harold Wilson had Marcia Williams and all that kind of thing. |
| 1:45.8 | But on very small scale, the idea that Downing Street's full of press officers and campaigning |
| 1:51.2 | people, all feuding with each other and all making the big decisions and letting the |
| 1:56.1 | cabinet know in due course what they've decided, which is the impression one gets |
| 2:00.0 | from quite a lot of the newspaper comment. |
| 2:01.8 | That's very new. |
| 2:03.4 | I think it really started accelerating |
| 2:05.5 | with Tony Blair |
| 2:07.5 | when Alastair Campbell and so on |
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