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🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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As campaigning for the local elections hots up, Matt Chorley looks at some of the most iconic political stunts, from the the Mirror Chicken to Dave the Chameleon and speaks to the brains behind the photos.
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Times columnists Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester discuss the day's news
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| 1:02.1 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast, I'm Matt Shorty. Coming up on today's episode as political |
| 1:22.9 | parties hit the road ahead of the elections on Thursday, all taking part in increasingly |
| 1:27.6 | city stunts to catch the photographers eye, we count down the best and worst political photo |
| 1:33.0 | ops ever, including speaking to some of the people who were behind them. But first, as ever, we kick |
| 1:38.0 | off with our columnist panel, it's Monday, so it must be Liberacee, Libby Perris and Rachel's Restor. |
| 1:58.3 | Let's talk about wolves and whether or not they matter in politics. Let's not get bogged down in |
| 2:10.4 | the ins and outs of flats because people get crossed if we do that too much. But over the weekend, |
| 2:14.9 | the Scottish custodial leader Douglas Ross said that if Boris Johnson is found to have broken |
| 2:19.6 | the ministerial code on any of the things that he may or may not go up to, he would have to resign. |
| 2:25.1 | However, we have seen a recent time, you know, Pitchett Patel was found to have broken the |
| 2:30.0 | ministerial code, but it was allowed to stay because she didn't know that she was bullying people. |
| 2:34.3 | And that's sort of thing. Does it matter what's the point of the ministerial code, Libby, |
| 2:38.8 | if there are no repercussions for breaking it? |
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