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Politics Unpacked

The Press Secretaries

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley speaks to former Press Secretaries for every Prime Minister since Thatcher, who give their experiences of the job and advice for Boris Johnson's new spokesperson Allegra Stratton.


Guests include:

Thatcher: Sir Bernard Ingham

Major: Gus O’Donnell

Blair: Tom Kelly

Brown: Simon Lewis

Cameron: Gabby Bertin 

May: Paul Harrison



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0:00.0

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0:57.0

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1:03.0

Hello and one to the Red Box podcast on The Times.

1:05.2

I'm Matt Jolly bringing the best of my Times video show,

1:07.8

Monday to Thursday 10 till 1.

1:10.6

Only a few weeks to go until the US election. I'm hosting the overnight results show on Times Radio and I need you if you are in America

1:20.3

If you want to be one of our special correspondence, basically we want to try and find a listener in every state in the US if we can.

1:27.0

So if you are listening to this podcast in America, we know that thousands of you do, email me,

1:31.0

Matt Dauchioli at Times. Radio radio and we'll get you on the radio at some

1:34.7

point now then back to British politics nothing is given his freely's advice as

1:41.0

they say and Allegra Stratton who's been named the

1:43.5

Prime Miss's new press secretary fronting these these new number 10 daily

1:48.0

televised briefings well she's been inundated with unsolicited and not entirely benevolent advice on how to do the job.

1:56.4

But maybe it's worth her listening to those who have gone before the dozen or so people

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