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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

What would you consider appropriate work attire?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

A woman has revealed her shoulder in the House of Commons and a lot of men are up in arms about it. We'll be talking to the brazen female at the top of the show. And ORDERRR...ORDERRRRR, Former Speaker of the House, John Bercow is in OUR house. This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC. Listen live, weekdays 10AM-1PM and join the conversations: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

0:14.4

Three minutes after ten is the time, and I don't think anyone could accuse us of not being live on the radio most mornings. Today in particular,

0:23.0

Tracy Brayman, the Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who is rather

0:28.9

tragically, but I think grimly predictably in the news today, not because of the very powerful

0:34.5

and pertinent, even some would say, well, everyone intelligent would say important speech

0:39.2

that she made yesterday about Downing Street's attempt to ban selected reporters from a media briefing on Brexit.

0:46.7

Has even in the newspapers that she was defending, drawn more attention for her sartorial decisions than for her comments which i i mean look i could

0:57.2

get on my high horse about this but um i'm not going to i'm going to discuss it with her but she's

1:03.4

currently on a scooter and on a crutch so this is this is not a word of a lie the shadow

1:08.5

secretary of state for culture media media and sport, is currently

1:11.5

wheeling herself into my studio on a sort of adapted scooter and in a full leg plaster. So,

1:20.8

Tracy, hello. Hello. Are you all right? So have you not got a horn? I was expecting a beep

1:25.9

as you came through the door. I know. I know it's instead of crotches.

1:28.9

Well, forgive me.

1:29.6

I didn't know you were injured.

1:30.9

So automatically, of course, the ludicrous focus put upon your sartorial decisions yesterday moves into a slightly different light.

1:40.0

Because when you are hobbled or hopping, it makes getting dressed in certain circumstances a little different.

1:48.0

What do you think? What do you think when you woke up this morning? Or actually yesterday, wasn't it?

1:51.1

Well, it's all slightly absurd, isn't it? But I did feel that, you know, I'm in a really privileged position, James, that I can actually, you know, push back and be vocal about this.

2:01.1

Yes.

2:02.1

And I felt, you know, it was my obligation to do so for other women because they certainly

2:07.8

don't have those chances because it may be their boss, you know, it may be colleagues

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