Will Boris Johnson move from chairman to chief executive?
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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It has been an embarrassing week for the Johnson government, as education secretary Gavin Williamson was forced into a U-turn on exam results. Will the prime minister rethink his management style and does he face a leadership challenge? Plus, the UK and EU are still struggling to strike a trade deal in the latest Brexit negotiations. Will an agreement be reached in time for the end-of-year deadline? Presented by Sebastian Payne, with Paul Goodman, editor of the ConservativeHome website, and the FT's Laura Hughes, Peter Foster and Sam Fleming. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Josh de la Mare. The sound engineer is Breen Turner and the editor is Liam Nolan. Theme music by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | It's been an embarrassing week for the Johnson government as Education Secretary Gavin Williamson |
| 0:06.8 | was forced into a U-turn on exam results for millions of students. |
| 0:10.9 | I'd like to start off by emphasizing my apologies to those students that have been affected |
| 0:16.8 | and those students have been impacted by not getting the right grade. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to Payne's politics, your essential insider guide to what's happening in British |
| 0:28.7 | politics from the Financial Times with me Sebastian Payne. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm back from a little holiday with many thanks to |
| 0:34.8 | George Parker for stepping in. In this episode I'll be discussing Gavin Williamson's |
| 0:39.4 | political future and whether Boris Johnson might change his management style as |
| 0:44.0 | Prime Minister with our political correspondent Laura Hughes and special guest |
| 0:48.1 | Paul Goodman, former Tory MP who edits the Conservative Home website the Bible of the Tory grassroots. |
| 0:55.0 | And later I'll be checking in on everyone's favorite topic Brexit and why the |
| 1:01.0 | talks are stuck in stalemate or perhaps even going a little backwards with |
| 1:05.4 | our Brussels Bureau Chief Sam Fleming and Public Policy Editor Pete Foster. |
| 1:09.7 | So Laura, welcome back and Paul, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:14.0 | Hello? |
| 1:15.0 | Hi. |
| 1:16.0 | Now, before all that, there's one question in the back of everyone's mind, which is, |
| 1:20.0 | how do we stop Parliament crumbling or burning down? |
| 1:23.3 | It's got this multi billion pound refurbishment that's been going on for years as far as I can remember. |
| 1:29.0 | Now there was a bit of talk around that when the Renault happens, the House of Lords could move to York. |
| 1:34.3 | That's been crossed this week I thought was quite a nice idea. |
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