128. Whips, Chaos, and secrets from Westminster (Simon Hart)

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Why do the wrong people become MPs? How can we transform Westminster into a modern day workplace? How did Simon Hart’s time at The Countryside Alliance inform his politics? Rory and Alastair are joined by the ex-Tory Chief Whip, Simon Hart, to discuss all this and more. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Video Editor: Josh Smith Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Producer: Nicole Maslen Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.6	Welcome to the rest of politics leading with me, Roy Stewart.
0:52.7	And with me, I was to Campbell.
0:54.3	And with us very patiently sitting in the studio, we struggle with amazing technical problems,
0:59.0	are Alastair and Simon in person and me down the line.
1:02.5	And Simon Hart has just published a book which I think is probably the first book
1:09.0	ever written by a Chief Whip, giving us the real inside line and the diaries of somebody who was right at the front line.
1:16.4	Quick introduction to Simon.
1:18.1	Simon is somebody who joined Parliament with me in 2010.
1:22.0	It's a conservative MP.
1:23.8	He came from background of being the chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, and he was somebody who was, I think, generally very, very much liked, trusted.
1:38.3	But it wasn't, I think, and he can correct me on this, until 2019 that he became a minister under Boris Johnson,
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