Tax, international aid and the loan that keeps attracting interest| Andrew Mitchell, John Nicholson and John Redwood

Sophy Ridge On Sunday

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🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As the death toll from the earthquake in Syria and Turkey continues to rise, Development Minister Andrew Mitchell defends the governments cuts to the international aid budget as Conservative MP John Redwood calls for tax cuts at home.

Plus, SNP MP John Nicolson and member of the DCMS select committee says Richard Sharp’s position is no longer tenable after a report critical of the BBC chairman’s connections to former prime minister Boris Johnson is published.

On the Sophy Ridge on Sunday podcast, Sophy is joined by political correspondent Liz Bates to analyse the interviews.

Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Editor: Paul Stanworth

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0:42.3	Hello and welcome to the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast.
0:47.1	This week I've been speaking to the Development Minister, Andrew Mitchell,
0:50.5	the SMP, MP and Culture Committee member John Nicholson,
0:56.8	and also the shadow levelling up secretary, Lisa and Andy.
1:04.4	I'm very pleased to say that we're joined by our political correspondent, Liz Bates.
1:05.4	How are you, Liz?
1:11.1	Nice to be here. Lots to get through on the podcast. I want to say just at the beginning, we did a lot on the earthquake on the show today, the devastating earthquake that is hit in Turkey and in Syria as
1:16.7	well. I was kind of weighing up how much to do of it on the podcast, but to be completely
1:21.1	honest with you, I feel like if you want to get the best news and the most current news on
1:25.4	that earthquake, our teams on the ground are the place
1:28.4	to go to. So we're going to do a little bit of our interviews on that, but we're also going to
1:32.8	look into some of the politics. In particular, that select committee reports into Richard
1:38.3	Chart, the chair of the BBC and where it leaves him. The bit that we'll play you from
1:42.8	Andrew Mitchell was when we were talking
1:44.2	about the aid budget and I wanted to talk to him about the aid budget because I think that while
1:49.3	he was saying that yes, there's flexibility in emergency relief, how much we give in aid over many
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