Lords reform, Boris Johnson and Louise Mensch: Guardian podcast

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Lords reform, Boris Johnson and Louise Mensch: Guardian podcast

By Mark Pack | Fri 10th August 2012 - 2:07 pm

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This week’s Politics Weekly podcast from The Guardian features, ahem, myself alongside Martin Kettle, Nick Cohen and Tom Clark. Lords reform, Boris Johnson’s political future and the Corby by-election (so far, dreadfully lacking in jokes about trouser presses) all feature.

Nick Cohen made a particularly good provocative point about Boris Johnson – saying he’s the only Conservative in the UK to have won a major election since John Major won the 1992 general election. It makes the Tory right’s view of him rather contradictory: they really dislike some of his policy preferences (such as on immigration) yet also love him as someone who has won elections, especially as their bête noire, David Cameron, did not manage it in 2010.

You can listen to the podcast here.

* Mark Pack is Party President and is the editor of Liberal Democrat Newswire.

Read more by Mark Pack or more about boris johnson, corby, david cameron, louise mensch, martin kettle, nick cohen or tom clark.
This entry was posted in News, Parliamentary by-elections and Podcasts.

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