On Thursday, the 15th of May, the Spectator is hosting a live book club event. Sam Leith will be joined by

former Telegraph editor-in-chief and military historian Max Hastings. It will be an opportunity to talk

about Max's new book, Sword, D-Day, trial by battle, as well as mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

The full details are as follows. 730 on Thursday the 15th of

May at the Shaw Theatre in Houston, London, and tickets start from £27.50, although I believe

there are ticket options that include a signed copy of the book. For those tickets, go to

www.spectator.com.com.com. We look forward to seeing you there.

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Oscar Edmondson, and I'm joined today by Isabel Hardman and Danny Shaw, former advisor to Yvette Cooper.

And Kirstama has succeeded in keeping immigration at the top of the news agenda for another day,

although he may not be too happy with the headlines.

After his set piece announcement yesterday, the Prime Minister's caught between fire from either side.

In the left corner, he's accused of pandering to Nigel Farage and potentially even echoing the rhetoric of Enoch Powell, while Farage himself has called the Prime Minister insincere and playing

catch-up. Now, Isabel, there was a real change in rhetoric from Labour on immigration yesterday,

but I suppose the biggest question is, do you really buy it? Yeah, that's the really interesting

thing, isn't it? And you don't have to go back

that far in time on Kirstama to find, as the Conservatives have, letters where he is

endorsing a much more liberal line on whether it's illegal immigration or indeed legal

immigration, which is what the subject of yesterday's white paper was. So that's,

you know, there's a kind of sincerity thing here. And there's also, I think, and Danny will

know far better than I about this. There's a difference between Kirstarman and Yvette Cooper

in terms of determination to tackle this. I think from the

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