302: A Long Week in Politics

Rob and Tom discuss a very long week in politics for Boris Johnson, a Lib Dem surge and the legality of proroguing.

Topics

• Intro [0:00]

• Brexit: A Long Week in Politics [0:54]

• Boris Loses His Majority [10:21]

• Boris Struggles at PMQs [17:26]

• Boris Can’t Get an Election [22:46]

• September 5th: Bye Bye Jo Jo [30:29]

• The Weekend: What Could Go Wrong? [33:48]

• The Last Day of Parliament [35:07]

• A Lawful Proroguing? [40:48]

• What’s Next? [44:46]

• Quick Polls Update [49:42]

• Outro [01:01:48]

• Bonus: Jeopardy [01:04:00]

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Shownotes

• BBC: 'Jacob Leeks Mogg' comes second in Newent Onion Show

• Twitter: MPs applaud, as Labour's Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi tells Boris Johnson to apologise

• Commons Votes

• Evening Standard: JFC: Tories criticised after depicting Jeremy Corbyn as chicken

• The Sun Photoshop

• Twitter: KFC tweet response

• Twitter: West Yorkshire Police Statement

• Twitter: Boris beats Boris

• BBC: Judges rule Parliament suspension is unlawful

• BBC: Lib Dems pledge to cancel Brexit

• Britain Elects: Westminster Voting Intention

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Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Reclining Rees-Mogg from Twitter

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