{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Mandelson, May Elections & Rosie Jones Mayhem","description":"British politics was shaken to its core this week when we all realised that, maybe, Keir Starmer isn’t as quite across the detail as he tries to make out. He had to explain exactly what he did and didn’t know about the developed vetting carried out for Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s Ambassador to the US.\n\nRight on the heels of that, came Olly Robbins, who was sacked last week from his role as the chief official at the Foreign Office. In a very civil servant way, he revealed the internal pressures and machinations that were happening during the appointment process.\n\nBoth men had serious questions to answer about what they did but Coco and Nish are joined by political journalist Zoë Grünewald (mailto:zoegrunewald1996@gmail.com) to ask why everyone is obsessing over the process while almost totally ignoring the larger, moral decision to make the appointment in the first place.\n\nPlus the comedian Rosie Jones arrives to totally derail the whole podcast with a mix of funny jabs at Nish while still telling us about the work of her brilliant foundation which is celebrating its first birthday!\n\nDon’t forget to leave a review - it gives the show a boost and we love to see your comments.\n\n**Warning: use of a racial slur during the Labour May election segment**\n\nCHECK OUT THESE DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS\n\nINCOGNI: https://www.incogni.com/podsavetheuk Code: podsavetheuk\n\nWISE: https://shopify.co.uk/podsavetheuk\n\nAURA FRAMES: https://www.auraframes.com Code: PSTUK\n\nSHIPSTATION: https://www.shipstation.com Code: PSTUK\n\nGUESTS\n\nZoë Grünewald - Journalist, broadcaster and political commentator\n\nRosie Jones - Comedian\n\nUSEFUL LINKS\n\nThe Rosie Jones Foundation: https://www.rosiejonesfoundation.com/\n\nCREDITS\n\nSir Keir Starmer MP - Parliament TV\n\nEmily Thornberry MP - The Mirror, YouTube\n\nSir Oliver Robbins - Parliament TV\n\nDavid Miliband MP - Mornings with Ridge and Frost, Sky News\n\nPod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media.\nGet in touch - contact us via email: PSUK@reducedlistening.co.uk (mailto:PSUK@reducedlistening.co.uk)\nLike and follow us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK\nInstagram: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk\nTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk\nBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com\nFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheukX: https://x.com/podsavetheuk (https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk)","author_name":"Pod Save the UK","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166011-pod-save-the-uk","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43610253/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}