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The Rundown by PoliticsHome

Strikes, scandal, and a shaky start for Sunak

The Rundown by PoliticsHome

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4.1105 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Conservative MP Theresa Villiers, Head of Political and Social Research at polling firm Opinium Adam Drummond and Unite union national lead officer Onay Kasab join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst as the country faces the biggest day of co-ordinated strike action in a decade and Rishi Sunak marks his first 100 days as Prime Minister.


Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Ewan Cameron for Podot, Edited by Laura Silver

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home. I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst,

0:10.9

who will be to discuss the biggest strike day in a decade this week and leave a large day of

0:14.6

walkouts to come on Monday, as well as marking Rishi Sunak's somewhat rocky first 100 days as Prime

0:19.1

Minister. I'm delighted to say we have Onei Kasab, national lead officer for the United Union, whose members in a whole range of sectors

0:24.7

have agreed a series of industrial action over paying conditions. Alongside him, we have Theresa Villiers,

0:29.6

Conservative MP and a former cabinet minister, as well as Adam Drummond, head of political

0:33.7

and social research at the polling firm opinion.

0:40.3

So I'm going to start with you, Theresa, obviously, today, as we record us on Thursday,

0:44.4

it's 100 days of Richard Sunaaker's Prime Minister. It's known as a double trust, I think,

0:49.4

100 days. I just wondered what you kind of made of those 100 days. There's a lot of questions at the moment, whether they've been a bit overshadowed by

0:56.5

scandal and strikes.

0:59.0

I just wondered how you felt things were going.

1:00.8

The last time you were on the podcast was at the last concerted party conference in Birmingham.

1:04.6

I just wonder what you made at the time since then.

1:07.0

Yes.

1:07.3

Well, that podcast that I did for you was more or less the only thing I said on the media

1:12.9

plus premiership.

1:15.3

I was...

1:15.3

I feel very, very honoured.

1:16.1

Theresa, thank you.

1:17.1

Keeping fairly quiet about that episode.

1:20.6

Well, I mean, the crucially important thing that Rishi's done is to stabilise the economic

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