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Are Sunak's five pledges enough to sort Britain out?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak made five pledges to fix Britain in a speech in London today. Inflation will halve, the economy will grow, debt will fall, NHS waiting lists will be cut, and the government will pass laws to tackle the small boats crisis. Is the PM promising too much, or not enough?

Max Jeffery speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Heale.

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0:00.0

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0:17.2

Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectators daily politics podcast.

0:21.5

I'm Max Jeffery and I'm joined by James Hill and Isabel Hardman.

0:25.7

Rishi Sunak gave a speech in London today in front of MPs,

0:29.0

outlining his plans to turn the country around. Isabel, what do you have to say?

0:34.3

So he set out five immediate priorities of the people and they are to have inflation this year,

0:43.2

to grow the economy, to have national debt falling, NHS waiting lists will fall and people will get

0:49.2

the care they need more quickly and new laws to stop small boats. He also had a passage where he

0:56.4

talked about the importance of the family and how that was something that underpinned him as a

1:01.4

politician and his governments and how politicians shouldn't be afraid to talk about the importance

1:08.9

of the family. I think a bit like immigration, I have to say it's one of those things that

1:12.4

politicians never seem that afraid to talk about. They just like to make it sound like they're

1:16.5

being really daring by mentioning their wives. He then also said that he wants the British public

1:21.9

to judge him on whether he delivers on those priorities which again is hardly unusual given

1:28.2

he's a politician who has to go through a general election every five or so years and there's one

1:33.6

coming up soon. I think some of the priorities that he set out, I mean the Bank of England's

1:40.2

forecast would suggest that he may well get his first target on inflation without having to do

1:46.8

anything specific that's new this year. Anyway some of the other ones are actually quite difficult.

1:53.2

I mean is he going to grow the economy? Economy is currently contracting. Will NHS waiting lists fall

1:59.9

when actually internal forecasts that the NHS have suggest they're going to get even bigger and

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