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Politics Unpacked

What Theresa ever did for us

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As May leaves No10, Matt Chorley asks Alice Thomson, Daniel Finkelstein and Anne Ashworth if her injustices are still burning. 

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

0:08.3

slide by on track to your

0:15.0

there,

0:20.0

to care in the world as you simply lean back.

0:17.0

And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travels should feel,

0:22.0

and on our trains it does a vante west coast feel good travel

0:32.0

Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics

0:34.2

podcast in The Times I'm Matt Chorley.

0:36.5

I have just been to Buckingham Palace where Her Majesty the Queen

0:41.0

has asked me to form a new government and I accepted.

0:45.7

That was three years ago this week, but instead of delivering on her pledge to build a

0:50.1

better Britain, she is packing her banks and preparing to leave Downing Street.

0:54.0

But having promised a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us

0:58.0

what his Theresa May actually achieved.

1:00.0

I've assembled a stellar panel of Red Box regulars to cast a critical eye over her legacy,

1:05.1

holding her to the words she spoke on the steps of number 10.

1:08.4

Daniel Finkelstein is a Times columnist who's advised Tory Prime Ministers and Leaders

1:12.0

down the years.

1:12.8

Alice Thompson has chronicled the May era in Collins interviews and in-depth features,

1:18.8

and Anne Ashworth Times Property and Money Editor has watched it may bet the house and lost.

1:25.0

Instead of our panelists kicking off with their own take on the May Premiership, we're going to

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