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Politics Unpacked

Why Politics Is Broken

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Public trust and confidence in government and the people who govern us is at a record low. Polling expert Sir John Curtice tells Matt what's behind the worrying decline, and a raft of big thinkers explain what can be done to fix it.


Plus: Columnists Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss Rishi Sunak growing up without Sky TV, a young, inexperienced parliament, and whether climbing walls should be in the office.


The Columnists (02:55)

Why Politics Is Broken (22:59)



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0:00.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

0:06.1

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

0:16.0

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in

0:26.0

2023. VP.com slash and not all.

0:30.0

Your history is a new podcast brought to you from The Times and it brings together the real life stories from our obitories desk which have been published for over a century.

0:40.0

In this brand new show we build on this legacy and explore the endlessly fascinating lives

0:46.0

who have enriched and informed our own.

0:50.0

Join me and our sponsor, ancestry, as we journey through your history. Hello, I'm Matt Jolly, and this is Politics Without the Boimits coming up on today's episode.

1:12.4

Everything is broken and nobody's happy about it.

1:15.7

We look back on a turbulent time in British politics from Brexit to COVID to strikes to changing Prime Ministers the cost of living crisis.

1:25.9

Some new research.

1:27.4

John Curtis takes us through it.

1:29.1

It shows just how dissatisfied the public is and how we've lost faith that anyone can do anything

1:35.1

about it. Before that in the columnist Robert Crampton and Alice Thompson on

1:39.3

the sad news that as a child Ritchie Sunak didn't have Sky Tele.

1:43.4

And if you like what you're here on the podcast, don't forget you can join me for

1:46.1

politics like the boy mitts live on Times Radio on your DAB radio on your

1:50.0

smart speaker or download the Times radio app. It's politics without the

1:54.0

volume it's weekdays from 10. So I went on off air with Jane and Fee yesterday.

2:07.0

As you looked without Jane, because Jane was out and about the Times video bus, so I joined

2:17.5

Fee on the off-air podcast and we weren't supposed to be talking about politics at all.

2:24.6

That was the whole idea.

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