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Politics Unpacked

Whips Smart with Andrew Mitchell

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

Politics, News & Politics, News

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell speaks to Matt Chorley about his new book Beyond a Fringe: Tales from a Reformed Establishment Lackey.


PLUS 


The Times Libby Purves and the Mirror's Susie Boniface discuss COP26, sleaze and sex work.


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be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

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towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

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green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.6

slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast, I'm Matt

1:08.6

Chauley. Coming up on today's episode, a really fascinating chat with Andrew Mitchell,

1:15.6

former Cabinet Minister, former Chief Whip, of course, had to resign over Plubgate,

1:18.8

so we'll talk about all of that. But he's also written a book which sort of lists the lid on

1:22.8

just being this extraordinary establishment figure who then thinks that he's now outside the

1:26.7

establishment, probably interesting, the secrets of whipping, what's it really like in and out of

1:31.4

government and his advice to new MPs, too. So that's coming up as our big thing on the podcast.

1:36.8

Before that, though, it's our columnist panel, no Rachel Investor today, so we've got Libby Purvis

1:41.5

and Susie Boniface.

1:42.9

So let's look ahead to events in the House of Commons a little bit later on. MPs are going to

1:54.0

vote on, well, in fact, Labour's going to stage a vote on banning MPs and taking paid

2:00.0

consultancies, all the directorships, Keir Starmer say, well, in fact, they were going to tell

2:04.1

about that for a vote on Wednesday, but they're going to vote later today to reverse the vote

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