Alison Holt
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120 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Alison Holt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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there will be under two years to the next general election.
I think there's a real danger that we will end up tight against the next general election or too tight against the next general election.
But there is also, you know, this has gone on for a long time.
It is having an impact on the NHS.
More importantly, it is having an impact on a huge number of people's lives.
So at some point we do have to, you know, forget the cliche, but grasp the nettle and do something.
I thought it was really interesting that he was tying that big issue that as a society we are wrestling with into improving social care and palliative care.
And it's certainly one of the strong arguments that has been made is that if you get that care better, if you improve it, make it easier to navigate, then people...
will not feel a burden as you know obviously they're not a burden but but you know it will make it easier to it will encourage people not to to go for assisted dying but but i'm afraid i'm i'm i haven't got any deep thoughts no it's all right that sounds pretty deep to me i mean if that was if that was shallow i mean i'm impressed um jim
I didn't see any notes at all.
He did.
He started off by saying that.
As I say, I didn't notice any notes sitting there, but perhaps, you know, I could have missed that.
It certainly felt like he was speaking from the heart on this one.
Towards the end, I felt like he was slightly teary in terms of, you know, he was saying...
I might fail, but I'm really going to try.
And he was talking about his father and you can see how personal it is to him.
Yeah, about 15 minutes.
So a few of us, I imagine, are good enough and fluent enough to produce without having thought it through very carefully that point, point, point argument.
So I'm sure there was practice and there was thought that went behind it, whether or not there were scripts.
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