What can the current crop of Conservatives learn from Lawson?

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a week of reflection, and so we brought quiet contemplation to the Red Lion pub this week.

With the death of Nigel Lawson earlier this week reminding Tories of a time when the Government was bold about tax cuts, Sir John Redwood MP joins Christopher Hope to talk about what the current crop of Conservatives can learn from the late former Chancellor.

And as we mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement, veteran Telegraph journalist Philip Johnston reflects on that seismic moment and how its ripples continue now.

Plus legendary Olympian Sir Steve Redgrave tells Chopper why he's encouraging men to get their hormone levels checked, and how he believes there should be a men's health minister.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's politics.
0:04.0	I'm delighted that both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor admire Nigel Lawson and I'd have thought the most important thing to admire
0:12.0	was tax simplification tax rate reduction increasing the
0:15.7	revenues as a result what's not to like unless you're a very bitter and
0:20.0	twisted socialist.
0:21.0	Hello I'm Christopher Hope, the Associate Editor for Politics at the Daily Telegraph, and welcome
0:28.0	to Chopper's Politics Podcast, live from the Red Line pub in Heart of Westminster.
0:34.0	It's been a week of reflection with the death of Nigel Lawson, Lord Lawson of Blaiby,
0:39.0	reminding toys of a time when the government was bold about tax cuts.
0:44.0	And today's 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to Northern Ireland.
0:50.1	So this week on Chopper's Politics Podcast, we'll be discussing both of those things.
0:55.0	Lawson's legacy, with Sir John Redwood, a former head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit
1:00.1	in Ten Downing Street, and the Belfast Agreement with my colleague Philip Johnston, who covered
1:05.4	the intricacies of that deal for the telegraph all those years ago.
1:10.3	And later we'll be talking to one of Britain's greatest Olympians, Sir Steve Redgrave, who won five, yes five consecutive
1:18.0	gold medals at five Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. But first the death of Nigel Lawson triggered much soul-searching
1:27.4	in the Tory party about what is the point of the modern-day Conservatives. With me and with his ideas on what the party can learn from Lord Lawson is Sir John
1:37.2	Redwood.
1:38.2	And we had some trouble connecting with Sir John Redwood, so I caught up with him on the phone.
1:42.2	Sir John Redwood so I caught up with him on the phone.
1:43.9	Sir John Redwood, welcome to Choppel's Politics Podcast.
1:46.7	Great to have you on.
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