Are Truss and Macron now 'bons amis'?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Katy Balls speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Drax, as the UK's largest renewable electricity generator |
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| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, |
| 0:24.0 | the Spectators' Daily Politics podcast, |
| 0:26.0 | Uncaterpoles, and I'm joined by James Forsyfe and Isba Harman. |
| 0:31.0 | As the newspapers have filled warnings of potential blackouts, |
| 0:35.0 | that a rarer is brewing over how the government should address the energy crisis. |
| 0:40.0 | The Climate Minister has this morning said the government will not be launching |
| 0:43.0 | a public information campaign on reducing household energy use this winter. |
| 0:47.0 | This comes and reports that Jacob Reesmog, the new business secretary, |
| 0:51.0 | had signed off on it only to be overruled by number 10. |
| 0:54.0 | James, can you talk us through the dynamic here? |
| 0:56.0 | Is this trust ultimately taking heavy view that the government should not interfere |
| 1:00.0 | too much in people's lives? |
| 1:02.0 | So is this trust said in our conference speech? |
| 1:04.0 | She doesn't like the idea of government telling people how to live their lives. |
| 1:07.0 | And I think she worried that telling people to turn the radiators off in rooms |
| 1:10.0 | that they don't use, turn the heat off when they left their house. |
| 1:14.0 | What was too bossy to nannying? |
| 1:17.0 | I think there are two problems with this approach. |
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