BONUS: Leader of the Opposition Episode 3
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Last year, to mark 300 years since Robert Walpole became Prime Minister, Matt Chorley learnt about every PM through history each week. This year, he's learning about each Leader of the Opposition with Nigel Fletcher from the Centre for Opposition Studies.
Each month you'll find a collection of episodes on the podcast. This week, Granville Leveson-Gower, James Harris, Lord Cairns and Charles Gordon-Lennox.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast, I'm Matt Cholli, bringing you another bonus episode. |
| 0:09.2 | Every week this year we are bringing you a different leader of the opposition, Nigel Fletcher |
| 0:14.2 | from the Centre of Opposition Studies, talking us through a different one. |
| 0:17.4 | And every month we put them all together into a special podcast treat. |
| 0:20.8 | The leader of the band. |
| 0:38.0 | First up, it's Granville, leverson Gower, second Earl of Granville, |
| 0:42.4 | who was leader of the opposition in the House of Lords at no fewer than five times. |
| 0:47.6 | He was a long-serving leader of the Liberal Party in the Lords, |
| 0:51.2 | and his times in opposition there span a total of 33 years, |
| 0:55.0 | so he's quite a significant figure. |
| 0:57.8 | Another aristocrat we're back to, sort of, eaten in Oxford, |
| 1:00.8 | is background related to most of the... |
| 1:02.8 | Some things never in the ability. |
| 1:04.2 | No, exactly, we're back to that. |
| 1:06.2 | And he was then elected as a lot of them were, first of all, to the House of Commons, |
| 1:10.0 | where he sat for 10 years from 1836 until his father died and he went to the Lords. |
| 1:16.4 | During the period he was in the Commons, he was known as Lord Leverson, |
| 1:19.0 | which might put a chill down the spine of certain people in the media. |
| 1:24.4 | He also picked up a nickname, |
| 1:26.6 | which is perhaps relevant to your use of the... |
| 1:30.4 | Are you being served theme music? |
| 1:32.2 | He was called Pussy, as in Pussycat, for some reason, |
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