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🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Matt Chorley is joined by ex-spad Jason Stein, who lifts the lid on the shadowy Whitehall unit which polices propriety, Matthew Parris explains why the government is like a Rorschach inkblot year where different people see different things, and Janice Turner on the left tearing itself apart on gender politics.
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0:46.0 | Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times, I'm Matt Chorley. |
0:59.4 | This week we're going to cover multitude of topics. We're going to talk about gender politics |
1:05.1 | and how that's being just taking over progressive parties, not least the |
1:10.2 | Labour leadership contest. That's with Janice Turner. |
1:13.0 | Matthew Powys is here to talk about the government and how it is whatever you want it to be, |
1:18.6 | at least for now. |
1:19.6 | But first, Jason Stein, a former special advisor in the Conservative government, on the problem with ethics |
1:27.0 | and in particular the ethics unit. |
1:29.0 | The Shadowy Wightall Unit which oversees pesky special advisors and clumsy ministers is set for an upgrade. |
1:35.0 | The all-powerful propriety and ethics unit is opaque, nearly impossible to navigate or contact, |
1:41.0 | and can drive politicians and their aides around the bend. |
1:44.0 | But here's the tricky bit. |
1:45.0 | It's set up to work exactly like that. |
1:48.0 | So this is a fascinating day because this is one of these organizations in Whitehall |
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