What is Boris Johnson up to?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson has been slapped down by a senior Conservative for his interventions on Rishi Sunak's latest Brexit deal over Northern Ireland.
Is the former PM stirring up trouble to pave the way for a comeback?
In the first interview since he left office, Johnson's former Director of Comms Guto Harri speaks exclusively to The News Agents and has a message for his old boss.
And Lewis comes back from Rotherham, where he was over the weekend reporting on a far-right protest gathered outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. He tells us what he heard and saw.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | So, the man who's always banging on about Tim Tams is back. |
| 0:18.5 | We're not talking about me, are we? |
| 0:19.8 | Actually, no, we are not talking about you, although John Sopal of the South Asia-Pacific |
| 0:26.1 | Bureau is now back from Australia. |
| 0:28.4 | You'll notice my sentences will now be ending with a nutwood inflection. |
| 0:32.5 | And I'm noticing that there are no Tim Thames this time on his return. |
| 0:36.1 | In the office, there are salted macadamia nuts. |
| 0:39.3 | I thought that would be much smarter. |
| 0:41.7 | Anyway, the other Tim Tam man is the one we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:45.3 | I want a world in which we send you marmite. |
| 0:49.5 | You send us Vegemite. |
| 0:51.4 | We send you penguins. |
| 0:53.0 | And you send us with reduced tariffs, these wonderful Arnets, Tim Thames. |
| 0:58.0 | How long can the British people be deprived of the opportunity to have Arnets Tim Tams at a reasonable price? |
| 1:06.0 | He is back and stirring things up for Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, the man doing the job that he |
| 1:14.6 | would quite like to have a go at doing again. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah, one Boris Johnson. |
| 1:18.7 | He has been out and about stirring trouble in Northern Ireland over Rishi Sunak's attempt |
| 1:24.1 | to get an agreement over the Northern Ireland protocol, the endless nightmare |
| 1:29.5 | that is that. And it seems that Boris Johnson is going around telling members of the Democratic |
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