What if...Dominic Cummings hadn’t tested his eyesight by driving to Barnard Castle?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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What would have happened if to the Conservative Party if Dominic Cummings hadn’t needed to test his eyesight by driving to Barnard Castle? What if David Miliband was elected Labour leader instead of his brother, Ed Miliband? And what would have been the impact on British politics if the IRA had assassinated Thatcher in the 1984 Brighton bombing?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | We agreed that we should go for a short drive to see if I could drive safely. |
| 0:16.9 | We drove for roughly half an hour and ended up on the outskirts of Barnacastle Town. |
| 0:22.4 | We did not visit the castle, we did not walk around the town. |
| 0:26.3 | We parked by a river. |
| 0:28.5 | My wife and I discussed the situation. |
| 0:30.5 | We agreed that I could drive safely, we should turn around, go home. |
| 0:34.0 | I felt a bit sick. |
| 0:35.9 | We walked about 10 to 15 meters from the car to the riverbank nearby. |
| 0:41.4 | We sat there for about 15 minutes. We had no interactions with anybody. I felt better. We returned to the car. |
| 0:49.6 | An elderly gentleman walking nearby appeared to recognize me. My wife wished him happy Easter from a distance, |
| 0:55.7 | but we had no other interaction. And that in case you hadn't guessed it was Dominic Cummings, |
| 1:00.9 | replete with Birdsong in the Downing Street Garden, explaining why he'd had to go for a drive to |
| 1:06.8 | Barnard Castle to test his eyesight. That is among the many what-ifs we're going to try to answer |
| 1:14.0 | in this episode. What if he hadn't? Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's John. |
| 1:24.1 | It's Emily. It's Lewis. And we're going to come to Dominic Cummings and the Rose Garden and the multifarious excuses that he made at the time. |
| 1:33.0 | But we're not starting there. |
| 1:34.5 | We're starting with something that happened in 1984, which I think could legitimately have changed the whole course of British history and perhaps of the history of the United Kingdom. |
| 1:46.6 | This is a nice festive question from Fanola, |
| 1:49.2 | who asks us, what do you think would have happened |
| 1:51.8 | if the IRA had assassinated Margaret Thatcher, |
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