What would you do if you became Prime Minister?
Not Another One
Richards Green Montgomerie Martin
4.7 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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In our latest weekend magazine edition, the team are asked to imagine what they would do if “the ball came loose from the back of the scrum” and they won power. Which policies would they prioritise? From boosting housing, to tackling anti-social behaviour, expanding continuous vocational education and training, banning cycling on pavements and mandating the pint-sized bottle of champagne, Tim, Miranda and Iain design their manifestos. Plus, the coming constitutional crisis if Reform does win the election and has no seats in the House of Lords.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the weekend edition of Not Another One. |
| 0:17.5 | But it is another one. I'm afraid, listeners. |
| 0:20.8 | And I'm here in Soho having a great time with Tim Montgomery and Ian Martin. Steve is still delighting audiences in Edinburgh, but we'll be back with us next week. And for our weekend episode this week, well, it was sparked off actually, Tim, by something that you said in our earlier episode in the week when we were talking about the government's level of popularity and you started to wax lyrical about what you would do, were the great British electorate capital GBE to, you know, make you primus interparais. It's a matter of time, surely. It's a matter of time, surely. Although they saw me at the moment, I look a slightly infected mouth, so I look like the elephant man. So I'm not sure I'd be elected at the moment. I think it's fine. You know, Ian and I, as your key aides, would keep, make sure the TV cameras only shot you from your good side. |
| 1:11.4 | We'd have it totally under control, wouldn't we? Absolutely. So what we thought we would do is we'll keep it short and sweet for the weekend, but we're going to kind of fantasise slightly about what we would do after decades of observing British politics very closely, the three of us. you know, what we would do if we suddenly |
| 1:28.5 | were gripping the reins of power. I mean, I'm trying not to get, you know, let it go to my |
| 1:33.7 | head already here. I'd be a very happy subject if you were the detect. Oh, well, I don't know. You |
| 1:41.4 | might gut up rough, actually, some of the things like some of my preoccupations. |
| 1:45.6 | But so, so Tim, can you do like a potted version of what you said last time really quickly? |
| 1:51.3 | And then maybe, because we know obviously you are hugely, hugely interested in housing policy as the kind of the housing theory of everything they call it, |
| 2:01.6 | don't they? |
| 2:01.9 | They're all Britain's social problems, economic problems, really come back to the kind of sclerotic |
| 2:09.0 | housing market and the people are the way that there isn't enough affordable housing |
| 2:13.4 | and all the rest of it and the way that housing is an asset class, not somewhere to live. But building on what you said in our last episode, you're now Prime Minister. You're on the steps of Downing Street. Yep. I think I'd move to Hampton Court Palace, first of all. Oh, okay, nice. Because there'd only be one election. There wouldn't be elections after I'd take the power. |
| 2:35.1 | No, and really fantastic garden, of course. I'd appear on some balcony to address the nation ever so |
| 2:40.6 | often. And you and you and I would be in the Tower of London. Yeah. |
| 2:44.9 | Probably, but, you know, playing lots and crosses for eternity. To be half sensible, |
| 2:50.0 | though, the idea of me being dictator isn't exactly in the sensible territory. |
| 2:54.4 | I am obsessed with houses. |
| 2:55.7 | I have been for years, actually, the reason why I called Concertive Home and Concertive Home |
| 2:59.5 | wasn't just because Home is the place on the internet where you go home for conservative news. |
| 3:04.5 | It is that I do believe. |
| 3:06.0 | You know, it's about family, it's about identity, it's about loc know, it's about family, it's about identity, |
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