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Politics Unpacked

Current status: grim and worsening

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley presents from parliament to assess how bad things have become on a human level. MP's Chris Bryant, George Freeman, Philippa Whitford and Ruth Smeeth explain about poor mental health, tears behind closed doors and members unable to visit dying relatives due to Brexit uncertainty. 


Later, staffers Tara O'Reilly and Elliot Stratton recount dealings with death threats as common place before co-chairs of the parliamentary mindfulness group, Tim Loughton and Chris Ruane detail how long baths and appreciating the small things have helped over 200 MPs and Peers.



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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

0:08.3

slide by on track to your

0:15.0

there,

0:20.0

to care in the world as you simply lean back.

0:17.0

And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travels should feel,

0:22.0

and on our trains it does a vante west coast feel good travel

0:32.1

Over the last few days people have been asking me what on earth's happening with Brexit.

0:37.0

Some of my friends are going to the toilets to cry because they've answered another call to a death threat.

0:44.8

We know across the board or we can see it that Brexit's causing sort of mental health crisis.

0:50.1

I know three MPs whose partners are dying.

0:52.4

They daily have to make the decision

0:53.7

whether they're going to go home to see them or whether they're going to hang around for a vote

0:56.7

that may never happen. Some people are falling out with each other. I'm desperately trying

1:01.2

hard not to. I don't think any of us anticipated a time where

1:06.2

it would be quite so chaotic.

1:10.9

Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast and The Times I'm Matt

1:15.9

surely on day two of our special week of episodes try to give you the fullest

1:20.2

picture of what is and isn't happening with Brexit. I'm in Parliament. I'm not

1:24.8

supposed to be here. No one is. It was supposed to be recess with MPs, staffers, officials,

1:29.8

and yes, even journalists given a break from the Mad House.

1:33.6

Instead, we are all still here, and the current mood is not great.

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