301: Deselection Election?

Rob and Tom are back for a new season because the Boris and Brexit news just won’t stop! This week they dive into proroguing and fears of an upcoming General Election.

TOPICS

- Intro [0:00]

- What is proroguing? [1:44]

- Does Boris want a No Deal Brexit? [7:25]

- Boris' speech and promises [13:53]

- How could this cause a General Election? [19:20]

- Deselection of Tory MPs [25:11]

- What are Boris' options if the bill passes? [28:15]

- Does Labour want a GE? [32:38]

- The Polls and GE predictions [35:25]

- What are the EU thinking? [45:02]

- Outro [47:56]

- Bonus: Listener Jokes [50:09]

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SHOWNOTES

- Parliament: Prorogation

- Twitter: List of Conservative rebels

- Twitter: Phillip Hammond Letter

- Twitter: Hillary Benn letter

- Twitter: Tory MPs to lose whip

- BBC: Laura Kuenssberg: Why is Johnson planning to deselect Tory rebels?

- Twitter: Snap poll shows hung parliament

- YouGov: Voting Intention: Con 33%, Lab 22%, Lib Dem 21%, Brex 12% (28-29 Aug)

- Britain Elects: Westminster Voting Intention

- Current Polls

- Twitter: Ruth Davidson resignation letter

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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: Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by Chatham House used under CC by 2.0