U-turns, car crashes, schools and Covid’s lost generation. Plus satire star Meggie Foster
Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast
ITV News
4.2 • 177 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson's U-turns caused political car crashes this week, before the prime minister himself was involved in an actual car crash.
We discuss his bumpy week and the impact his policy changes could have.
Robert Peston asks what is being done to help school and college leavers when there are no jobs, and the team look at what's going to happen to the children left without an education due to coronavirus.
Our star guest this week is political satirist Meggie Foster, who explains to us the inspiration behind her viral videos.
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| 0:00.0 | The best day ever! |
| 0:03.0 | Whoa, look out, Storm Chasers! |
| 0:05.0 | Brace yourself for Tornado Springs! |
| 0:08.0 | With some serious spinning, thrilling and roller coaster in! |
| 0:12.0 | Discover a Lost Kingdom! |
| 0:14.0 | A Jurassic World with dinosaurs, two world-class coasters and a lovable pig. |
| 0:22.2 | Wait, what? |
| 0:24.7 | Hello, I'm Peppa Pig. |
| 0:30.3 | Come and meet Pepper and her friends at Pepper Big World, Pepper's very own theme park. And because one day won't do, book an official short break and get your second Park Day free. |
| 0:36.5 | Exclusions apply. |
| 0:37.8 | Portland Park! |
| 0:43.3 | Hello and welcome to this week's installment of the ITV News Politics Podcast. |
| 0:48.3 | A pretty strange week which saw Boris Johnson go from political car crash to actual car crash. |
| 0:54.6 | After the Prime Minister's free school meals U-turn came the emergency stop, a protestor jumping |
| 0:59.6 | in front of his car outside Parliament, causing his security detail behind to bang into |
| 1:04.3 | the back of him. |
| 1:05.3 | A minor accident that left a pretty major dent. |
| 1:08.4 | The political damage though had already been done by Marcus |
| 1:11.0 | Rashford 24 hours before Manchester United's number 10, forcing number 10 into a colossal |
| 1:16.6 | climb down after he campaigned for 1.3 million children on free school meals to have access |
| 1:21.9 | to meal vouchers over the summer holidays. By the time the Premier League had returned on |
| 1:25.7 | Wednesday, many were already given the government credit for the first own goal of the restarted season. |
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