"We don't need to be world-leading, we just need to be competent"
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
David Davis MP is Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan's latest passenger as they blast off to Planet Normal. The Tory veteran talks about whether the A-Levels U-turn will be this government's poll tax moment, says don’t need to be “world leading”, we just need to be competent when it comes to coronavirus, and that the Cabinet would have benefitted from more experience in hindsight. Plus, a glimpse behind the scenes of the rows that caused him to step down as Brexit secretary.
Allison and Liam also talk exams, and whether "Gav has to go", and hear about home-made explosives and Starsky and Hutch inspired car chases in your Health and Safety stories.
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| 0:27.0 | Slashpuzzles-Pamitnormal today. |
| 0:36.0 | Five |
| 0:38.0 | World Leading testing system. |
| 0:40.0 | We don't need to be world leading, we just need to be competent. |
| 0:43.0 | Four |
| 0:44.0 | Salis Lear |
| 0:45.0 | 200 grand a year as a civil servant, and she's yet to speak. |
| 0:49.0 | Nice work if you can get it. That's more than you earn, my god. |
| 0:52.0 | Three. |
| 0:54.0 | You can always lose any general election, but I think the coronavirus episode will cast a long shadow. |
| 1:00.0 | I'd rather have my secretary of state for education chosen on the basis of their competence |
| 1:06.0 | rather than whether they could give Chinese burns to Tory MPs and the Westminster Gents. |
| 1:12.0 | One. |
| 1:15.0 | We have left off. |
| 1:18.0 | Blast off, number 13. |
| 1:21.0 | Summer's ending. |
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