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🗓️ 18 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 a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. |
0:24.7 | I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyfe and Fraser Nelson. |
0:28.7 | Now this week, we had a cabinet reshuffle and one of the top lines from it is the fact that Michael Gove has been charged to |
0:35.2 | being used to beef up the levelling up agenda. |
0:38.6 | Fraser, part of the issue with this, which Boris Johnson does see as a key plank of his |
0:43.2 | election message, of what he hopes to be his domestic reform, is no one is quite sure what |
0:47.6 | it means. |
0:48.5 | Do you think Michael Gove can fix this? |
0:50.7 | I think he can fix it. |
0:52.4 | One of the things Michael Gove is very good at is coming up with theses. |
0:55.3 | He's a journalist in the same way that Boris Johnson is a journalist. |
0:58.3 | The slightly strange thing is that Boris has failed to answer his own essay question. |
1:02.7 | What does leveling up mean? |
1:04.4 | He's tried to do it a couple of months ago in his speech where it was widely mocked because it was meaningless. |
1:10.5 | Now, I can only imagine that Boris |
1:13.0 | likes the strategic ambiguity. He quite likes not being pinned down to something. He probably |
1:18.2 | quite likes the fact that people assume leveling up sounds good, but nobody quite knows what it |
1:21.9 | means. He does have a bit of a track record in liking or being drawn to slightly undefinable goals. |
1:31.2 | When it comes to specific goals like manifesto pledges not to break taxes, he tends to break |
1:35.3 | them. But I think Michael Gove has got a far better chance at turning, leveling up from a soundbite |
1:42.8 | into an agenda. |
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