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🗓️ 17 September 2021
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0:00.0 | Coffee House Shots is sponsored by EDF, Britain's biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. |
0:06.5 | Find out how we are busy helping Britain achieve net zero at www.edufenergy.com. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
0:23.8 | I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman. |
0:27.4 | And Boris Johnson has just chaired the first meeting of his cabinet, his refresh cabinet. |
0:32.7 | James, what was the message coming from that? |
0:35.1 | That it's all about delivery. |
0:36.6 | There was also a joke about how he'd seen more delivery rooms than anybody but Jacob Rees-Mogg. |
0:42.0 | And there was also a talk about Emily Lawson, who ran the NHS vaccine rollout, |
0:47.5 | who's now been drafted into head the number 10 delivery unit, also addressed the cabinet. |
0:52.8 | I think the interesting question is what are they trying to deliver? |
0:58.7 | And I mean the challenge of this government is we know at the very 64,000 feet, high level, point what they're trying to deliver. |
1:07.2 | But what are the steps on that road? |
1:10.6 | So, you know, how are you going to get to leveling up, for example? |
1:15.7 | We know what the aim of the policy is in toto, but how do you intend to get there? |
1:20.6 | And I think that is the question. |
1:21.6 | What are they trying to deliver? |
1:24.8 | And then I think the other question is the biggest delivery challenge that they have to my mind |
1:29.4 | is clearing these COVID related backlogs how are they going to do that we have an idea of the money |
1:35.0 | that I have to do that in health but we don't know how they intend to do it yet in any detail |
1:39.7 | what are they planning to do education what are they planning to do in the criminal justice system |
1:43.9 | I think those are for questions they are going to need answering this autumn. |
1:48.4 | Isabel, we've heard a few more appointments overnight, and before I suppose we delve into the bigger picture from them, |
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