Emily Maitlis
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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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I mean, we talked yesterday about the language on British politics and, you know, kind of whether Kemi Badenoch had gone too far in what she'd said about Bridget Phillips and the education secretary.
Look, the language of our politics isn't as rough as it is in America.
But the casual brutality of our politics is way, way worse than America.
Well, you know, you have a general election.
in britain and the prime minister is being shown out the door the serving prime minister is being shown out the door first thing the next morning get out the new prime minister is going to be arriving by 11 o'clock your piano is in the street get the removal men in you're out and on the civil service are there applauding nicely as the new prime minister walks in that is the brutality
But that was OK.
If we're talking about, you know, Starmer's success, foreign policy would, you know, let him bank that.
The failure was that he never gripped the Downing Street machine and that there was a continual changeover of staff, you know, key advisers.
I know he did a lot of the firing himself.
And that James Purnell coming in as the new chief of staff to Andy Burnham has got to really run that machine so that, you know, government, the civil service is working at the service of Andy Burnham and what he wants and making sure his writ runs.
And that will be the job of Purnell.
Well, let's just pause that there because last night the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, was on a platform and she was being asked about advice she'd give to anyone becoming Chancellor.
We'll be back after the break.
And just to look ahead to tomorrow's News Agents, which will be a question and answer on the week that saw Starmer fall and Burnham rise.
And let's give you a taste of one of the questions.
This is from Sophie Louise.
Hi, News Agents.
Do you think Labour MPs and Burnham himself have played the replace the leader card too early?
We all know realistically Labour can only afford politically to do it once so as not to be branded the same as the Tories and to avoid calls for an early general election.
Surely they should have copied Canada, kicking Trudeau out mere months from the election and bringing in a winner in Carney, completely rewriting the polls and rattling their opponents who only really knew how to fight Trudeau.
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