U-Turns and Turncoats (with Stewart Lee)
Stewart Lee joins Armando to look at jokes at the dispatch box, why we aren't shocked by U-turns, and look at the language of defections. Is this politics at its most theatrical?
With the backdrop of tariffs and territorial land grabs, Stewart and Armando look at the political language of U-turns and turncoats.
With politicians having to advocate for a position they used to be in direct opposition to, we ask if political language exists in a quantum state inside Robert Jenrick's head, or, failing that are we really expected to believe defectors like him have had a damascene conversion?
Stewart gives an update to an tired political joke, Armando finds a nifty Peace Prize related fix for the Greenland dispute, and they both give a run-down the shifty, shifting responses from Government officials on their numerous U-turns.
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Sound editing: Chris Maclean
Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman and Caroline Barlow
Executive Producer: Pete Strauss
Recorded at The Sound Company
Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies and Sasha Bobak. A BBC Studios production for Radio 4.
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- Thu 22 Jan 202609:45BBC Radio 4
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Armando Iannucci and guests decode the utterly baffling world of political language.

