Will Young: popstar to politician? Plus Westminster ceasefire row
Pod Save the UK
Pod Save the UK
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Nish and guest co-presenter Liz Bates set the scene on what went on to become a chaotic night in the Commons, that put speaker Lindsay Hoyle’s job at risk. They call out the “pathetic and petty” political game playing that sought to use the suffering of people in Gaza to embarrass the Labour Party. There are also harsh words for Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch for using the Commons to settle scores in her row with the former Post Office chairman Henry Staunton.
Former Pop Idol winner Will Young reveals his life-long interest in politics, and tells us what it was like to see his petition on ending medical testing on dogs, debated at Westminster. For his next foray into politics, Will says he’s planning to go to Somerset to troll Jacob Rees-Mogg, and says he’s even thinking about becoming an MP himself.
In heroes and villains, Liz takes inspiration from Samatha Morton, while Nish defends Indian cuisine. Plus find out why Nish is channelling Carrie Bradshaw!
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Will Young: singer, actor and writer
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Pod |
| 0:05.0 | this is Pod Save the UK, I'm Nishkumar and this week I've got a very special |
| 0:08.8 | guest co presenter. |
| 0:10.1 | It's me, I'm Liz Bates and today I'll be joined in the studio by Will Young and let me just say |
| 0:16.7 | Teenage Me is very excited about that. |
| 0:20.0 | Yes, he'll tell us about his journey from pop idle to political campaigner. |
| 0:26.0 | Plus why Labour has finally decided to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi Liz. Hello. |
| 0:36.0 | Thanks for sitting in for Coco Khan this week. |
| 0:38.7 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:40.4 | You've been on the show before but your day job is political correspondent at Sky News, though you have been absent from your day job for a very specific reason of late. |
| 0:49.0 | I have had a child. |
| 0:52.0 | Congratulations. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you so much and I have been successfully keeping that child alive for five months. |
| 0:58.0 | And so when your producer rang me yesterday and said, |
| 1:02.0 | did I want to come and do... Not that I'm not a huge fan of this podcast, |
| 1:05.2 | but he basically offered me the chance to leave the house for a few hours. |
| 1:07.5 | And I was like, yes, please. |
| 1:10.1 | So here I am. You didn't even ask any follow-up questions. I don't care what it is. |
| 1:18.6 | No, no. He didn't even get to the end of the sentence. I had no idea what he was offering. |
| 1:22.3 | It could have been saying, do you want to go on a trip to the local sewage works and I was like sure I'm in I get to leave the house that's it that's good enough for me |
| 1:31.5 | so yeah usually I'm the political correspondent on Sky News. It's rather different from |
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