Strikes, sexism and why MPs' second jobs are OK

Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Twas the strike before Christmas... on this week's festive edition of Choppers' Politics:

Frances O'Grady gives her final interview as the General Secretary of the TUC, discussing strikes and the current gridlock between union leaders and the government.

Robert Halfon MP, previously an outspoken and campaigning backbencher, swings by the Red Lion pub to explain how now, as a Minister of State in the Department of Education, he's taking that spirit and applying it to students affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. He's also, unusually, a member of a trade union.

Plus, Sir Geoffrey Cox KC pops by to talk about a ghost of his Christmas past: second jobs for MPs. He also treats us to a tradition on the podcast, a reading from A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas.

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0:00.0	Coming up on choppers politics.
0:06.0	TUC, General Secretary, have you ever kissed a Tory?
0:09.0	Chris, if you're offering.
0:13.2	Oh Francis, my politics on my own.
0:16.3	Hello and welcome to Chopper's Politics.
0:18.8	I'm Christopher Ho-Ho-Ho-Ho-Hope.
0:22.0	Welcome to a festive edition of your favorite podcast, Choppers Politics Podcast,
0:29.0	here from the Red Line pub, surrounded by garlands of holly.
0:33.0	Wonderful, isn't it?
0:34.4	Outside though, Britain has ground to a halt,
0:36.9	with strikes affecting the NHS, trains this weekend and more.
0:41.9	It's a very difficult time and with us this week on
0:43.9	Chobos politics we have Franceso Grady the general secretary outgoing of the
0:49.0	Trade Union Congress in her final interview before she ascends the House of Lords, and Robert Halthon, a minister
0:55.6	state in the Department of Education and also a member of a trade union with his view on the
1:01.0	strikes and what the government should do.
1:04.4	And finally it is Christmas and will us to discuss a ghost of his Christmas past is
1:09.1	Sir Geoffrey Cox in his first interview since being embroiled in a row about second jobs over a year ago.
1:16.0	And please do stay around right to the very end of this podcast for an extra special festive reading
1:20.9	from Sir Geoffrey Cox. But first,
1:24.0	France was brought up in Oxford in a family steeped in trade unionism.
1:28.8	Her dad worked in the British Loehlin plant in Cowley, now the mini plant of course owned by BMW and a brother
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