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Jul 2021
24m 45s

"Best of Frenemies"

THE TIMES
About this episode

Matt Chorley is joined by Sky News Deputy Political Editor Sam Coates to relive the drama of five years ago this week, when Boris Johnson pulled out of the Conservative leadership contest following the Brexit vote, and asks how his old frenemy Michael Gove has managed to get himself back in power.


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Sunday Times columnist India Knight and the Daily Mail's John Stevens discuss furlough and Britney Spears."



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