81. Alex Chalk, Lord Chancellor: How to fix Britain’s prisons

Leading

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Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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What are the powers of the Lord Chancellor? How important are friendships in politics? What needs to change to solve the prison crisis in the UK? Rory and Alastair are joined by Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Alex Chalk to answer all these questions and more. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. TRIP TOUR: To buy tickets for our October Tour, just head to www.therestispolitics.com Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Video Editor: Teo Ayodeji-Ansell Social Producer: Jess Kidson Assistant Producer: Fiona Douglas 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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0:20.0	Welcome to the Restis Politics. Welcome to the Restis Politics leading with me Rory Stewart and me ask the camel.
0:24.1	And today we have with us my friend Alex Chalk and Alex Chalk is a conservative.
0:29.3	He's the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.
0:32.8	So he's in the Cabinet.
0:33.8	He's got huge responsibility to his Lord Chancellor,
0:35.6	but he's also in charge of our prison system,
0:37.5	courts, probation, sentencing.
0:39.8	He came into Parliament 2015.
0:41.8	He's the MP for Cheltenham. He made a name for himself
0:45.1	in the Justice Select Committee where I remember having to testify to him as a
0:48.8	Prison's Minister myself. He in 2019 very kindly came with me when we were trying to do various things around Brexit
0:57.4	Which I'm not sure whether he talks about now, but anyway we were very much
1:00.1	I remember it well very much much campaigning together. And then he found himself put back
1:06.8	into the Ministry of Justice as a junior minister. He resigned from Boris Johnson's
1:11.8	government in protest after all the scandals, Chris Pincher scandal.
1:16.4	He didn't join Liz Truss's administration, but he was brought back by Ritchie Sunak initially
1:22.1	as a minister of state in the mystery defense
1:24.4	and then as our Lord Chancellor and Secretary State of Justice and he's one of the few serving
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