The PM's plan for Christmas - plus the tale of the gay MPs who tried to take on Hitler
Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast
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4.2 • 177 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we learn the fascinating story of the Glamour Boys - the gay MPs who lobbied the UK government to go to war with Hitler, long before World War II began.
And Robert examines the departure of Boris Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings from Downing Street.
He also explains the prime minister's plan for Christmas and the latest coronavirus vaccine developments.
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| 0:00.0 | You wait ages for a vaccine and then two come along at once. |
| 0:07.9 | This week came another potentially life-changing development in our fight against COVID-19 as |
| 0:13.0 | US company Moderna became the second firm to reveal impressive results from its vaccine trials. |
| 0:18.7 | Interim results from Moderna have revealed it to have almost 95% |
| 0:22.9 | efficacy at preventing the disease. Not so good news for Boris Johnson this week. Contact with a Tory MP |
| 0:29.2 | who developed coronavirus saw the PM pinged by test and trace and told to stay inside Downing Street. |
| 0:36.1 | Days after kicking Dominic Cummings out, his chief advisor is gone for good, |
| 0:40.9 | the end of an era in Downing Street, so what next? |
| 0:44.2 | Lots to discuss. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Daniel Hewitt, political correspondent for ITV News, |
| 0:47.7 | and welcome to the Calling Pest and Podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | Just Robert and me this week, and of course, producer Lewis. |
| 0:53.6 | Hello? |
| 0:54.5 | No, she have Khan, sadly, enjoying a much deserved break. |
| 0:58.0 | We do, though, have a fascinating chat to bring you later on with Chris Bryant, |
| 1:02.2 | Labour MP, and author of a new book, The Glamour Boys, |
| 1:05.8 | on the gay British MPs who are among the first to warn the government about Adolf Hitler. |
| 1:11.9 | So it's basically the story of a bunch of queer or nearly queer, i.e. homosexual, |
| 1:18.3 | somewhere in between men in the 1930s. So at the beginning of the 1930s, used to go to Germany |
| 1:24.2 | a lot, in essence, to have sex. They all became the nucleus of a group of MPs who were determined to fight Hitler, not appease him. |
| 1:33.1 | Neville Chamberlain hated them, called them the glamour boys as a way to suggest something |
| 1:37.6 | untoward about them. They were threatened with deselection, their phones were tapped, |
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