Emily Maitlis
speaker
4,121 appearances
30 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Jun
Emily Maitlis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Traitors, spiteful class warriors.
That was Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister's Questions today, earning a rare rebuke from the Speaker about the sort of language being used in our politics today.
It's John.
It's Maitlis.
And watching Prime Minister's Questions, there was always going to be an added interest today.
The first Prime Minister's Questions since Keir Starmer announced that he was resigning as Labour Party leader and that Andy Burnham is almost certain to take over from him.
Kemi Badenoch started off, I thought, with brutal efficiency in the attacks that she launched online.
on the government, on the Labour backbenches.
And then I think we were all watching it and started to feel a tiny bit uncomfortable about, is this going too far?
And, you know, to Emily, what you just said, is it bullying?
And at which point, while we were thinking that, debating it, up stood the Speaker to warn MPs about the language they're using.
Sorry, Prime Minister.
Right.
I wonder whether at the end of this, what you're left with is.
It being a net win win because Kemi Badenoch looks like she's wears hobnail boots and is tough as nails and all the rest of it.
And is the hard woman of the Conservative Party who's taking the fight to Labour.
And so for her supporters, her backbenchers, that looks good.
And if you're Bridget Philipson and you've been called a spiteful class warrior, maybe you wear that badge and think, well...
there might be good that comes to me the deplorable me badge the deplorable me badge exactly and so they they all come out of it thinking yeah it's a bit of a net win i've got there i don't know i mean that's a very cynical view but they look the house of commons you know it was bombed in the second world war and churchill insisted that it wasn't redesigned when it was rebuilt he wanted it to remain the cockpit of debate of bear pit where people really looked at each other across a sword's
I agree with that.
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