4.1 • 105 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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The Spectator’s political correspondent James Heale joins PoliticsHome to relive another dramatic year in politics, featuring the SNP camper van, Rishi Sunak’s row with Greece over the Elgin Marbles, Keir Starmer getting glittered, Nadine Dorries' revenge, and David Cameron’s second act.
Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home. |
0:10.2 | I'm your host, Alan Tollist, and this week got a very special episode for this festive period, |
0:14.2 | where we take a look at the maddest political moments from Westminster in 2023 with our review of the year in politics. |
0:19.5 | Joining me to discuss everything from the mystery of the SNP camper van, |
0:22.7 | Rishi Sunak losing his marbles, |
0:24.5 | to Kier Starma getting glittered, and of course, all things Nadine Doris. |
0:27.8 | I have two of Paul Holmes finest, my colleagues, Caitlin Doherty and Zoe Crowther, |
0:31.4 | and returning to cast his eye over the year's strangest SW1 goings on. |
0:35.0 | I'm delighted to say we have the spectators political correspondent, James Heel. |
0:39.6 | So I'm going to start the first one, I think, it comes to mind when I talk about kind of |
0:43.8 | weird moments of this year was the return of David now Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton. |
0:49.2 | I think on that kind of Monday morning we were all expecting back in November a reshuffle. |
0:53.4 | I think most people were expecting, |
0:55.0 | not expecting David Cameron to walk to step out of a car on Downing Street. So we just talk us |
0:59.2 | through that morning and kind of how it happened and how surprising everyone was to see a famous face |
1:05.2 | back in number 10. Yeah. So Westminster was very much braced for a major reshuffle because we knew that Suella Braviman was likely going to be sacked and that therefore there was going to be movements around that. |
1:18.2 | However, I think it's fair to say no one saw the return of David Cameron. |
1:22.9 | And usually these things are slightly trailed or maybe there's rumours going around Westminster for months |
1:27.6 | beforehand, but this was not the case with this. And there was actually a very funny clip of the BBC's |
1:33.1 | Henry Zephman, just spotting now Lord Cameron, walking along Downing Street and then having to report |
1:39.3 | straight to the camera. So I think I've just seen David Cameron enter number 10. And I think, I think that means he's |
1:45.9 | going to be foreign secretary. Yeah. It was pretty bizarre, wasn't it? And James, obviously, as as |
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