meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Sophy Ridge On Sunday

December strikes, migrant crossings | Nadhim Zahawi and Miguel Berger

Sophy Ridge On Sunday

Sky News

Politics, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2157 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The government could use the army to help ease the disruptions caused by possible public sector strikes, Conservative Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi told Sky’s Sophy Ridge.

Sophy is joined by Sebastian Payne, Whitehall Editor at the Financial Times, to analyse Zahawi’s comments.

Also, Sophy and Sebastian discuss German ambassador to the UK Miguel Berger’s suggestion that Germany does not see a fundamental change in the Russian position amid the war in Ukraine.

Podcast producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Paul Stanworth

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This is hospice care. It's everything you'd expect and everything you wouldn't.

0:07.0

Happy birthday, Mum!

0:09.0

At Princess Alice Hospice, we've been providing specialists palliative and end-of-life care in our local communities for 40 years.

0:18.0

Over a third of the vital care we provide is funded by gifts in wills. Visit pah

0:25.1

org.uk slash gift in will to find out how you can leave a gift in your will to Princess Alice

0:32.1

Hospice and help it live on for all, for now, forever.

0:46.2

Hello and welcome to the Safely Ridge on Sunday podcast,

0:50.2

where we dive a little deeper into the interviews from the programme.

0:55.8

And today we were joined by Nadine Zaharwe, who was the chairman of the Conservative Party, and also the German ambassador

1:00.9

to the UK Miguel Berger. Now, Scott, a producer, isn't with us today, but instead we have

1:07.7

Sebastian Payne, who is the Whitehall editor of the Financial Times.

1:11.4

Hello, Seb.

1:12.0

Great to have you with us.

1:13.2

Good morning, Sophie.

1:14.2

You're talking to us from Shropshire.

1:15.4

I think that's right, isn't it?

1:16.3

That's right.

1:16.9

I have to get the obligatory plug in there that I'm currently doing book promotion.

1:20.9

I've got a new book out called The Fall of Boris Johnson, all about the final nine months of his time in office. I've just been doing an event here.

1:29.3

I was interesting you were all about Boris Johnson.

1:31.3

I couldn't resist asking Nadine Zahawi, who of course is close to Boris Johnson, who backed him for the leadership,

1:37.3

if he thought that Boris could be waiting in the wings, if Rishy Sunek has a wobble at the May elections,

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -845 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sky News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sky News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.