Hope, charity and "lying bastards"
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Olympian James Cracknell joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion to explain why he hopes become a Tory MP, appropriately in Henley on Thames, and how he would react if a certain blonde, former PM tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to step aside...
Also on the podcast, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer MP, fresh from a busy few weeks with the Coronation and then Eurovision, encourages Britain to embrace its cultural soft power, and urges charities to stay out of politics.
Plus former producer to Andrew Neil, Jeremy Paxman and Emily Maitlis, Rob Burley reveals which revered TV legend once wrote a speech for then Prime Minister Thatcher, putting to bed the idea that journalists now are more biased, and shares his top interviewing tips with Chopper, not that he needs them...
Why is this lying bastard lying to me? by Rob Burley
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tropper's politics. |
| 0:05.0 | If only comes down to me, you'll be in the end, |
| 0:08.0 | because you say you sod off Boris. |
| 0:10.0 | We'll run down the top half. |
| 0:11.0 | First one who gets back to the town hall can have a seat. |
| 0:15.8 | I'll take you on every day any distance. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | this is Chopper to my pals, a sister |
| 0:27.0 | associate editor for politics at the Daily Telegraph |
| 0:29.0 | and this is Chopper's Politics Podcast. |
| 0:32.0 | The Battle Lines over next year's general election are slowly taking shape over Brexit, housing and immigration, |
| 0:41.0 | but increasingly the election looks like its labors to lose. |
| 0:45.5 | We'll be hearing from Culture Secretary Lucy Fraser on why she thinks all is not lost |
| 0:51.4 | for the Tories, and from Rob Burley one of the most experienced |
| 0:55.2 | political producers in broadcasting on why political TV interviews are often so |
| 1:00.4 | uneluminating. President Company accepted of course. |
| 1:04.2 | But first, this week former Scottish Secretary Alistair Jack became the 35th Conservative |
| 1:09.1 | MP to say they will not fight the next general election. |
| 1:13.4 | But not all Tories are so gloomy about the party's prospects at Westminster. |
| 1:18.4 | Former Olympic roe James Cracknell has flown his hat into the ring to become an MP, possibly in Henlyapom Thames, very appropriate for |
| 1:27.0 | a rower. He joins me now in the Red Lion pub. |
| 1:30.0 | James Kraknell, Olympic Hero, Roing Legend, why on earth do you want to be a conservative |
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