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Coffee House Shots

Can the new PM hit the ground running?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As the leadership contest refocuses on the economy, Katy and James discuss each camp's plan to deal with the cost of living crisis. Are both candidates being pushed towards the centre ground? 

Also, looking ahead to winter, does the UK have enough energy in storage to keep the lights on, and what is being done to prepare the NHS? 

Cindy Yu speaks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls. 

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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast, I'm Cindy

0:26.0

and I'm joined by Katie Bors and Joan Tassife.

0:28.9

So we've had a bit more clarity on both candidates' economic plans over the weekend as we head

0:34.4

into a pretty dire cost of living crisis.

0:37.7

Katie, can you tell me what the trust campaign has said more about how she intends to help

0:43.3

people in the coming months?

0:44.3

So yeah, I think ever since that Bank of England forecast point to a 15 month recession

0:49.9

and inflation heading perhaps even more than 13%.

0:54.1

It has really refocused the leadership contest back to the economy.

0:58.7

Now, we know from early on that was always where there was the biggest difference, but

1:02.6

I think the conversation moved to, you know, things like foreign policy, to education

1:07.4

and, you know, immigration wise conversations are still going.

1:09.9

I think it has just brought things back to earth.

1:12.3

And over the weekend, a row kicked off whereby you had a situation where Liz Truss gave

1:17.8

an interview to the financial times.

1:20.4

She suggested that a role in handouts, she would fix cost of living in a conserved manner,

1:26.0

saying, lowering the tax burden was her number one priority.

1:29.0

Now, team Richie's unit quickly seized on this, went into the attack saying, so I don't

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