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Politics Unpacked

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Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley is joined by Sky News Deputy Political Editor Sam Coates to relive the drama of five years ago this week, when Boris Johnson pulled out of the Conservative leadership contest following the Brexit vote, and asks how his old frenemy Michael Gove has managed to get himself back in power.


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Sunday Times columnist India Knight and the Daily Mail's John Stevens discuss furlough and Britney Spears."



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It's just 10 general knowledge questions loosely connected 10 cabinet jobs.

1:58.1

Email me now with your details, map dot surely at times dot radio and we'll hopefully get you

2:02.2

on the radio very soon. Right, coming up on the podcast today, an absolute treat he's back.

2:07.5

Regular listeners of the podcast will remember Sam Coats, former deputy political editor at the

2:11.9

Times and general trouble maker. Five years ago this week, Boris Johnson pulled out of the TORI

2:19.5

leadership contest after being knocked in the back by Michael Goh, prompting Sam Coats to appear

2:23.8

on live television, looking a gogg behind Norman Smith on the BBC news channel. Well,

2:29.2

Sam Coats joins me to take a trip down memory lane to recall what happened five years ago

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