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Politics Unpacked

Why parliament needs cats

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley sits down with Chorley MP and deputy speaker, Lindsay Hoyle to discuss how to control a rowdy commons, being in the speakers chair during a terror attack and why a crumbling parliament might need to send in the cats. 

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:16.5

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0:21.1

Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.

0:27.0

Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy.

0:35.0

Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.

0:40.0

Book your train journey via Avanti West Coast.co. UK.

0:45.0

Avanti West Coast.

0:47.0

Feel Good Travel. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast of The Times. I'm Matt Chorley.

0:59.7

Delight to be joined in today's special episode by Lindsay Hoyle Deputy Speaker, Chairman of Ways and Means

1:06.4

and far more importantly since 1997 MP for Chorley. This is very exciting Lindsay.

1:11.1

Well it's great isn't it?

1:13.0

Huntown, Cholly Boy, through and through.

1:15.0

Now, I've got something to confess, I've never been.

1:18.0

No, there's something lacking in your education.

1:20.0

There's something we've got to fulfil that.

1:22.0

We should be doing this podcast in Choll. You should be doing it in Cholle.

1:25.0

On Cholle Market, where all the people are there, the great folk of Cholle. You'd really enjoy it and you'd just see another part of Lancashshire that most people don't realize exists.

1:33.8

Now I have had a chorly cake.

1:35.5

Fantastic.

1:36.5

Well it might be because I bought them from services I thought it was a bit dry.

1:40.5

And well you should have butter. Oh is that what you need?

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