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Politics Unpacked

What the Tories Really Think

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley and Times Deputy Political Editor Steven Swinford reveal what Conservative MPs and Ministers really think about the new lockdown measures, off the record. To subscribe to the Times go to thetimes.co.uk/timesredbox

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:46.2

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0:57.0

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1:02.8

Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast with me, Matt Chorley,

1:06.0

bringing you the best of my Times radio show Monday to Thursday, 10 till 1.

1:09.7

Oh my goodness is grim, isn't it?

1:11.7

So we did a whole half an hour actually today of a sort of coffee break where we just talked about nice things with nice people which we may well bring you on a future episode of the podcast. But there's an awful lot of political fallout from Boris Johnson's announcement at the weekend that England is heading into a lockdown.

1:28.0

So that's what I thought we would bring you on today's episode of the Red Box podcast.

1:34.1

Let's turn out our attention now to coronavirus.

1:38.6

This Downey Street political operation, which

1:41.0

believes everything can be solved with a three-word slogan.

1:46.0

There was...

1:47.0

Take back control.

1:48.7

Then there was...

1:49.7

Get Brexit done.

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