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THE REST IS POLITICS: US 🇺🇸
Episode 2: How to buy the White House
@KattyKay_
+
@Scaramucci
are back. On today's show:
💵 The truth behind dark money in American politics
🤝 The deal Obama made with the Mooch
🇲🇽 How Mexico could be crucial to November's election
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WOW!
4⃣0⃣,0⃣0⃣0⃣ FOLLOWERS!
Thanks so much to every single one of you who has tweeted us, recommended the pod, sent in questions, and listened to the show 🙌
We've been absolutely overwhelmed by the support since we started in March, and can't wait to see what's to come 👀 🎧
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You guessed it - we're about to record an emergency episode!
Any questions you'd like
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
to answer on the pod?
Reply below 👇
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Did somebody say...
#EmergencyPod
?
(yes - about eight thousand people in our mentions 😅)
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RESIGNATION STATIONS 🚨
Yes, you guessed it, it's emergency record time!
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
, in your podcast feeds tomorrow 🎙
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1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ FOLLOWERS! 🎉🎊💯
Thanks so much to everyone who has recommended, shared, reviewed, emailed, sent in questions, and listened to
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
on the pod.
Our first seven months have been amazing, onwards and upwards!
💯 Thank you 💯
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The Rest Is Politics ft. Tony Blair 🚨✅
Wednesday 29th June 🎙
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Following the news of Gary Lineker’s suspension from Match of the Day today, Rory and Alastair are recording an emergency podcast. Do you want to ask them anything about the BBC, press censorship, governmental management of nationalised companies, or anything else?
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Just recording The Rest is Politics in person in central London. If only there were plenty going on in the world of politics to discuss.
@RoryStewartUK
@campbellclaret
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Wow, worth a watch!
Here's the extract of Macron being interviewed on
@France2tv
yesterday by journalists with autistic spectrum - this time with English s/t 👇
Amazing TV 👏
@JournalPapotin
@EmmanuelMacron
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The moment caught on live TV!
Hang it in The Louvre 😎
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EMERGENCY POD BUTTON 🚨
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
are recording an emergency pod imminently...
Who do you think could be the next PM and why?
Hit reply below 👇
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Here we go,
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
recording now!
Podcast coming a day early, with you tomorrow morning 🎙
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🚨Boris Johnson resigns from Parliament tonight. Emergency pod incoming!
@RoryStewartUK
and
@campbellclaret
plugging in mics as we speak. 🚨
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150,000 followers! 🥳
After starting the show a year ago this month, we would never have thought that two people talking about politics every week could become the UK's biggest podcast. How wrong we were!
Thank you all so much for listening, there's plenty more to come 🙌
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Today
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
are recording in London with Lord Michael Heseltine! 🎙️
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Here we go.
@RoryStewartUK
has made it from the airport to his home in Jordan and joined
@campbellclaret
for our Emergency Podcast. Will be released tonight.
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BONUS POD RECORD 🚨
After Liz Truss revealed herself to be a podcast fan yesterday, it seems only fair to record an emergency episode this afternoon...
Questions, anyone?
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NEW PM: EMERGENCY POD 🚨
So, Liz Truss is the UK's next prime minister.
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
are recording an emergency pod later this afternoon about the news and what to expect from the Truss premiership - any questions?
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15,000 followers and still top of the Apple Podcast Charts!
Thanks to all our friends of the show who have got us here 🤝
Keep tweeting, following us on Instagram and emailing us - it’s great to hear from you 🎧
Thanks to the
@RadioTimes
for their feature on the pod too 👏🏼
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Almost ready for The Rest is Politics LIVE in Blackpool tonight. See you at The Winter Gardens at 8pm
@campbellclaret
@RoryStewartUK
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We are absolutely overwhelmed by all your support for our live event at the Royal Albert Hall. The event is now sold out. We look forward to seeing so many of you there December 13th!
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Partygate.
They're not impressed.
New pod drops tomorrow: Johnson, Sunak, police fines, Macron, Le Pen, non-doms, riots, Pakistan, voting age, your questions and much, much more.
It's our longest episode yet and and it's not one to miss from
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
🔥
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Recording a special guest episode with former 🇫🇷 President Francois Hollande in Paris with
@RoryStewartUK
dialling in from 🇰🇪
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✅👑💂🏼♀️
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Quote of the day!
‘Nobody expects the anti-growth coalition’ 😆
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EMERGENCY POD TIME 🚨
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
will be analysing the latest by election results in a quick record this afternoon.
Any questions you'd like answering?
Here's a taster...
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GARY LINEKER 🎙️🚨
On today's episode of LEADING,
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
are joined by
@GaryLineker
to discuss life in the public eye and what really happened after he was suspended from (and later reinstated to) his role at the BBC.
Listen:
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We've got a special guest for you tomorrow on the pod 🚨
🟥 Tony Blair
🟥 Keir Starmer
🟦 🤔
@RoryStewartUK
has landed his first guest, and it's a big Tory hitter...
Any guesses?
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👀
An emergency pod might be in order…
The Conservative Party must now decide if it wishes to change its leader. Because of the situation in Ukraine this was not a debate I wanted to have now but under our rules we must do that.
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Incredibly sad news today about the passing of Clare Drakeford, wife of Mark Drakeford, the First Minister of Wales.
Our thoughts and condolences are with Mark and his family.
Clare Drakeford, wife of the First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford, has passed away suddenly.
The pair had an incredibly committed relationship - he famously isolated in the garden shed during Covid to protect her while she shielded and he went to work.
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What did
@nadhimzahawi
get up to last night?
After accepting Boris Johnson's offer to become Chancellor, it seems that Nadhim downloaded the emergency episode of the
@RestIsPolitics
and gave it a spin... 🎙
Any idea if he was still thinking about it this morning?
THREAD 🧵
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So, will Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak be the next leader of the Tory Party?
Well,
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
have just recorded a special episode on that very topic...
In your podcast feeds tomorrow morning🎙⏰
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And now 5️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ followers?!
Twitter works in mysterious ways…
Welcome to our new friends of the show, hope you like porridge and bagpipes 😎
@RoryStewartUK
💥🎧
@campbellclaret
WOW!
4⃣0⃣,0⃣0⃣0⃣ FOLLOWERS!
Thanks so much to every single one of you who has tweeted us, recommended the pod, sent in questions, and listened to the show 🙌
We've been absolutely overwhelmed by the support since we started in March, and can't wait to see what's to come 👀 🎧
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SPECIAL EPISODE 🚨
Today
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
are joined by
@UKLabour
leader,
@Keir_Starmer
🎙
They talk rebuilding Labour, Tory leadership, Brexit, electoral reform, economics, Boris Johnson and more 🎧
Listen:
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Extra pod!
We're recording a bonus ep for our readers (listeners) in 20 minutes - anything you think
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
should talk about?
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Great to see
@campbellclaret
deploying the politician’s hand gesture on
@thismorning
-
@RoryStewartUK
has taught you well Alastair! 😎
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Feargal Sharkey 🎙️
We’re interviewing
@Feargal_Sharkey
on the podcast this afternoon.
Is there anything you’d like to ask him?
Reply with your questions below 👇
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Antony Gormley, sculptor of the Angel of the North, reflects on Brexit:
🗣️ "It's a fundamental failure of our imagination"
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Hillary Clinton lifts the lid on the raid for the world's most wanted man
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TRIP bookshelf 📚
Litalist have kindly made an interactive online bookshelf of all the books
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
mention on the podcast!
By clicking on each book, it tells you where your nearest independent bookshop is you can buy it from:
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Thanks to The Sunday Times Magazine and
@DeccaJourno
for her interview with
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
.
The conversation took place on the day of the
@RoyalAlbertHall
show in December, have a read👇
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Date of the next election?
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EMERGENCY PODCAST 🚨
Dominic Raab resigns...
The Deputy Prime Minister has gone, so
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
are recording an emergency pod in an hour's time.
Do you have any questions you'd like to ask them on the topic?
Reply with your q's below 👇
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🚨EMERGENCY POD🚨
Join us LIVE on YouTube at 4.30pm GMT today as Rory and Alastair discuss the unfolding political drama.
The emergency pod button has been pushed as David Cameron returns to Government and Suella Braverman is sacked.
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🔷 THERESA MAY 🔷
🎙️ TWO episodes of Leading:
1️⃣ Monday 2nd October
2️⃣ Monday 9th October
🔴
@campbellclaret
🔵
@RoryStewartUK
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JOHNSON RESIGNS 🚨
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
react to the news that Boris Johnson has resigned with immediate effect after an investigation into the Partygate scandal found he misled parliament and recommended a suspension from the Commons.
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Does the BBC need to call out Brexiteers more regularly?
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Tomorrow's episode is recorded and in the edit suite!
It's an absolute CRACKER from
@campbellclaret
and
@RoryStewartUK
...
In your podcast feeds at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning, don't miss it!
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Rightly so
Just got ripped to shreds on a stag do for not having listened to the latest Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell podcast
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NEW POD: TRIP AWARDS 2022 🚨
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
are joined by special guest
@DMiliband
to crown politician of the year, book of the year, villain of the year, and many more winners!
Listen:
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🗣️
@Schwarzenegger
"I was trying to get away from everything. I just wanted to leave and create my own life"
From a challenging childhood in post-war Austria to becoming the biggest bodybuilder and film star in the world, Arnold excelled in every field he pursued but his…
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“2022 belonged to
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
” 👑
A huge thanks to
@j_amesmarriott
for including us in
@thetimes
top 25 podcasts of 2022! 🍾
Read more below 👇
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Thanks so much to everyone for all the questions sent in this year! 👏
It's our last recording of 2022 tomorrow and we're doing our end of year review + 2023 predictions...
Is there in particular anything you'd like
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
to discuss?
Reply below! 👇
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Number 1 on Apple Podcasts!! 🎈
Thanks so much to all those who have listened so far today and for being with us from our first ever episode🎙
Onwards and upwards, we'll be back next Wednesday with our second instalment 🎊 🎉
We seem to be number one on Apple podcasts - thank you all so much for listening -
@RestIsPolitics
- second episode coming next week…
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It's the one year anniversary of our first EVER
@RestIsPolitics
podcast 🎊
Thanks so much to everyone who's been with us since episode 1 and to those who joined along the way..
Listen to today's Question Time first, then take a trip down memory lane...
Our first episode with
@campbellclaret
and
@RoryStewartUK
is LIVE
Putin in person, Russian money in British politics, Bono vs Blair and much, much more...
Listen below ⬇️
Apple:
Spotify:
RSS feed:
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Thanks so much to everyone who came to our first ever live Twitter Space 👏
If you missed it, not to worry: simply click on the icon below to listen on catch-up 🎧
See you Wednesday for our regular pod and Thursday for our Q&A edition!
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Wow!!
A
@RestIsPolitics
1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ in the
@ApplePodcasts
UK Charts 🎉🎊🙌🏼
Thanks so much to everyone who has listened, tweeted, reviewed, sent in questions, and recommended the pod - we really appreciate it 🎧🎙
@campbellclaret
🙌🏼
@RoryStewartUK
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POD QUESTIONS 🚨
We're recording on Monday afternoon, so please reply below with your questions for
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
We're also starting our new release schedule of two episodes a week, with one ep devoted entirely to questions from you, the listener! 🥳
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🧘🏻♂️
Rory Stewart meditates in the lotus position in a Nepalese monastery, eyes closed. His hair ruffles in the breeze. Goat bells clank in the distance.
Four members of the 1922 committee approach nervously.
Stewart (eyes still closed): I’ve been expecting you.
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Politics....... on the EDGE 📚
We've released an extract from
@RoryStewartUK
's new book on our podcast feed this morning.
If you want to enjoy Rory's new release in its entirety, you can find it at all good bookshops or in audiobook format.
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We've just recorded a brilliant regular ep (out on Wednesday) and also our first ever edition of 'TRIP: QUESTION TIME', which will be out on Thursday!
It's one of our best yet 🔥
@RoryStewartUK
|
@campbellclaret
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Brilliant conversation today recording tomorrow’s pod. And for those who think
@RoryStewartUK
&
@campbellclaret
agree too much, buckle up, it’s a bumpy ride
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Rehearsals complete!
Hope you’re all as excited as we are 😆
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QUESTIONS REQUEST 🚨
Not much to talk about this week…
What questions do you have for
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
?
Recording tomorrow, hit reply below 👇
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Just as
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
predicted during in the pod:
- brief press that you’re expecting huge seat losses
- lose seats, but a lot less than what you briefed
- claim PM and party have done a lot better than most expected
Expectation management.
Message to the troops from Number 10 this morning.
- "Across the UK (we've) done far better than expected".
- Starmer not making progress to "even dream of being in Govt".
- "Hard to imagine any other Conservative leader doing better than this".
*PM will speak to press later.
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Thanks so much for coming on the show, Mark - your episode got more listens than our Arnold Schwarzenegger interview in the first 24 hours!
#OnePodTwoGuvnors
A pleasure to join
@RestIsPolitics
with
@campbellclaret
&
@RoryStewartUK
— looking at lessons from past crises for today’s challenges, and how building a better future for people every day will depend on putting value in the service of our values.
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And yes... we did bring the film cameras 🎥🏴
Podcast episode in your feed tomorrow - it's a corker 🔥
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😰
Blog:
Why 🛒 supporting the human handgrenade?
Cos 🛒 knows she's mad & thinks she'll blow & he can make a comeback.
Why did I give her this nickname?
Cos she blows up all she touches
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Merch anyone?
Liz Truss in on the ‘anti-growth coalition’
‘From broadcast to podcast, they peddle the same old answers… more taxes, more regulation and more meddling
‘Wrong, wrong, wrong.
‘We see the anti-growth coalition holding us back’
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EMERGENCY POD! As Wagner Group mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin apparently rebel against the Russian Army, what impact could this have on the war with Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s position as president?
Listen now:
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Rory ‘the cheeky chappy’ Stewart 🕺🏻🪩
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20,000 FOLLOWERS and TOP of the
@ApplePodcasts
UK charts!!! 💥
Thanks so much to all of you for following, listening, reviewing, tweeting, sending questions, and passing the pod to a friend 🙏
We're so grateful for this growing political community, let's see where it takes us!
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🚨Emergency pod🚨
@RoryStewartUK
and
@campbellclaret
convened yesterday evening to react to Kwarteng 🔄 Hunt.
Listen to it now before something else happens!!
Apple:
Spotify:
Other apps:
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What did you think of Keir Starmer's speech?
We're recording in an hour's time - send in your questions and comments below 👇
That really was some speech by
@Keir_Starmer
… the Tories will have hated every minute. I can think of lots of floating voters who would have loved it.
@RoryStewartUK
and I recording
@RestIsPolitics
a bit later than usual today so it is main item in main podcast overnight.
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New episode of Leading with
@MichelBarnier
🎙️
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
talk to Michel about the truth behind Brexit and how he saw a PM in
@Keir_Starmer
when he met him...
Listen:
Apple
Spotify
More
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A 7.30am record - maybe our earliest
@RestIsPolitics
yet?
@campbellclaret
obviously still had time for a swim before though 🏊💧
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Thanks so much to everyone who came to our live shows last night! 💥
@campbellclaret
managed to fulfil a lifelong dream of serenading
@RoryStewartUK
with a bagpipes rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ 🎶
Thanks so much to
@GiddyAuntComedy
for organising and
@lsqtheatre
for hosting 👏
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The glamour of the podcaster!
Our first recording from the inside of a plane from
@RoryStewartUK
✈️
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Recording tomorrow’s pod live from the Royal Albert Hall! 🎙️
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'So Alastair, I didn't want to mention it, but... Burnley'
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ANTHONY JOSHUA 🥊
On Monday's episode of Leading,
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
are joined by two-time former unified world heavyweight champion
@anthonyjoshua
to discuss responding to failure, his outlook on politics, BLM, and Tyson Fury.
Monday 7th August.
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Ep 11 in the can - don't be fooled by the smiles here... 🔥
Local elections, Sinn Féin, Chinese foreign policy, Putin, Tower Hamlets, beergate, how reshuffles work, Carl Bernstein and lots of listener questions!
In the edit suite now
@RoryStewartUK
@campbellclaret
💻
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And there's a little bit more good news...
The Rest Is Politics just hit 5⃣0⃣ million downloads!
Thank you so much for listening to however many episodes you tuned into over the last 15 months.
Here's to 100 million! 🙏
A May Day treat... 🎊
Lovely to see a Goalhanger 1⃣2⃣3⃣ in the
@ApplePodcasts
UK chart.
Thanks to everyone for listening 🎧
@RestIsPolitics
👏
@TheRestHistory
👏
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🚨 EMERGENCY BONUS POD 🚨
The Week Everything Changed 🎙
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
discuss Keir Starmer's strong week, in contrast to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's... less good week.
Listen:
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Good afternoon all friends of the show!
We’re recording our latest pod in the coming days and the questions have been cracking so far - do you have anything you want to ask
@campbellclaret
and
@RoryStewartUK
this week?
*braces for being inundated with bagpipes song requests*
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Tomorrow? Pfft, it’s in your podcast feed RIGHT NOW!
We’ll have more content coming later in the week too 🎙🎧
RESIGNATION STATIONS 🚨
Yes, you guessed it, it's emergency record time!
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
, in your podcast feeds tomorrow 🎙
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An excellent choice for the new Director of Communications at Number 10, they'll be very lucky to have
@RoryStewartUK
😢
It seems
@campbellclaret
imparted a bit too much knowledge of the role during the pod recordings...
It is an honour to have been asked by the PM to serve as Director of Communications for No10 Downing Street.
I am looking forward to working with the PM, Ministers and Members of Parliament on the issues that matter most to our country
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Tomorrow's episode has been recorded! 🎙
@RoryStewartUK
+
@campbellclaret
discuss Patel's Rwanda plan, the role of religion in politics, the sinister man behind Putin,
@KuperSimon
's new book, Trump's potential return and answer lots of questions!
Currently in the edit suite 💻
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🚨 NEW EPISODE OF LEADING 🚨
@campbellclaret
talks with Bertie Ahern, former Irish Taoiseach, about his father's time in the IRA, how Ireland has changed over the last three decades, and what it was like working on the Good Friday Agreement.
Listen:
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SPECIAL PODCAST 🚨
@campbellclaret
+
@RoryStewartUK
have an emergency episode for you after Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid resign from government.
What does it all mean for Boris Johnson?
Listen:
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