Conspiracies, constituencies and cake

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Marking three years of the Red Box politics podcast from The Times, Matt Chorley is joined by Times columnist David Aaronovitch who reveals he is close to quitting Labour over antisemitism; Red Box reporter Esther Webber worries about how one man is blocking backbench laws in the Commons; and YouGov's Anthony Wells explains the firms latest modelling which predicts another hung parliament if we have a snap election.

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0:00.0	This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.
0:11.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and The Times I'm Matt Chorley.
0:30.4	Happy birthday to us.
0:31.8	This week marks three years of the Red Box
0:33.8	podcast. I took over the Times Opinion Podcast and put a new logo on it. Back in
0:38.9	the first episode in February 2016, it was a different world in which we discussed amongst other
0:44.6	things efforts to topple Jeremy Corbyn and a political realignment after the EU
0:48.7	referendum nothing is changed as they say since then I'm pretty sure with the only
0:52.8	podcast who brought you not just interviews the likes of Tony Blair,
0:55.6	Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Ruth Davidson, Amber Red Ed Balls's
0:58.3	Emily Thornbury, Angela Rayna and Nick Clegg, but also David Badele,
1:02.0	Michael Dobbs, Al Murray, Andy'szman, Nish Kumar, Rory Bremner, and Jan Raven's.
1:06.4	We've talked through questions like, what's the collective now for spin doctors?
1:09.7	How do you resign successfully?
1:11.0	What do whips do?
1:12.0	How did New Labour win? why's PMQ so bad, who's been the worst
1:15.3	Prime Minister ever, is Theresa May to blame for everything.
1:18.4	Where are the toilets and number 10?
1:20.3	What did Barack Obama think of Theresa May?
1:22.3	Why do adults watch Marvel films and can a donkey hold a flag in its hooves?
1:27.0	We have a similar varied lineup of topics this week with a classic Red Box podcast panel.
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