You Ask Us: How is a foreign secretary's success judged? Will Labour reform the Lords?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
"At the Home Office you have immigration figures, as health secretary there are NHS waiting lists. Is David Cameron likely to improve his reputation because it’s harder to fail as foreign secretary?" - one listener asks.
Anoosh Chakelian is joined in the studio by associate political editor Rachel Cunliffe and political correspondent Freddie Hayward to answer listeners questions surrounding David Cameron's appointment as foreign secretary.
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| 0:55.0 | Hi, I'm Anush. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Freddie. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Rachel. Welcome to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | This is an episode we like to call, You Ask Us. Hello, I'm Anusha Kelly and Britain Editor of the New Statesman and host of this |
| 1:17.2 | podcast and joining me in the studio I have Rachel Kunliff, our associate political |
| 1:21.0 | editor and Freddie Hay at political correspondent. |
| 1:24.0 | And you've been digging around in our virtual mailbag of listeners questions. |
| 1:28.1 | So what do we have to discuss first, Rachel? |
| 1:30.4 | This is a question we got from Rose, he got in touch on X, formerly known as Twitter, |
| 1:34.4 | after Monday's episode to cover the return of David Cameron, formerly known as the Prime Minister to Government. |
| 1:40.4 | Rose asked, how is a foreign secretary judged at the home office you have |
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