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🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Matt Chorley and The Times' Red Box Editor Patrick Maguire pause the action to analyse the exchanges between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions.
PLUS Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton discuss the vicious backlash against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and hoarding.
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0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Webbox Podcast. I'm Matt Chauley, happy spring statement day for the |
0:10.1 | very latest analysis of what Wishy-Soonack announced. Can I suggest you just pop the radio |
0:14.4 | on, listen to Times Radio, where there's rolling coverage of course of Wishy-Soonack's statement. |
0:20.3 | Before that, as ever, we had PMQs, we'll bring you PMQs and Patrick McGraw and I pause the |
0:25.3 | action as Boris Johnson and Kirston are going to go at it across the dispatch box and |
0:29.2 | before that, of course, every Wednesday, we have Aliburth is out of Stompson and Robert Krampton. |
0:38.0 | Let's talk about your column today and this ridiculous backlash against Nazanine Zagawi Rackliffe. |
0:43.9 | Well, I found it extraordinary actually because it just seen that this woman had come out after |
0:48.4 | six years, quite often in solitary confinement, having suffered torture and abuse in Iran, |
0:55.5 | and the moment she gets back to Britain, you think we'd all be hailing her. Not as a heron, |
1:01.0 | but as someone who needs support and help and time, we just spend with her husband, Richard, |
1:06.7 | who's been extraordinary trying to get her released and with her daughter. But instead, a lot of |
1:10.6 | people are saying that she's not being grateful enough just because she mentioned that five |
1:15.6 | foreign secretaries in Britain hadn't managed to help get her released. |
1:18.8 | And the backlash against her has been really quite phenomenal. And since I've written my column, |
1:22.4 | I've had a lot of tweets saying, you know, of course she's, you know, she's deeply ungrateful, |
1:28.0 | how can you not say that, you know, you're part of the problem, not the solution. And it does feel |
1:34.3 | as if there's a really nasty element in Britain now, people who just expect you to be grateful for |
1:39.6 | everything. I, yeah, I think probably there's always been a nasty element in Britain. And just |
1:46.0 | talking, me and Matt were talking about this beforehand. And what social media has allowed |
1:50.9 | that nasty element to have is a platform where previously it would have been a few |
1:54.8 | blokes in the pub. And it is blokes, by the way, I suspect. So I don't know, I mean, it's just, |
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