Coffee House Shots: how independent can Boris's new cabinet be?
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🗓️ 14 February 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Presented by Cindy Yu.
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| 0:17.4 | Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots at the spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm Cindy You and today I'm joined by Katie Bors and the new statesman Stephen Bush. Now we had our first cabinet this morning where Boris Johnson met with us new cabinet ministers. Katie, how did that meeting go? |
| 0:34.7 | So there are several, I think think takeaways from the first meeting of |
| 0:38.4 | Boris Johnson's new look cabinet. I think the thing that's triggering the most amusement is the fact |
| 0:43.9 | that Boris Johnson engaged in a call and response. And in this, we saw the Prime Minister going |
| 0:50.9 | to some of his favourite pledges that he likes to bring up any opportunity. |
| 0:54.5 | So how many hospitals are going to build? |
| 0:56.7 | Stephen, Cindy, do you want to answer this one? |
| 0:58.2 | 40! |
| 0:59.0 | Okay, well done. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm being the Prime Minister. |
| 1:03.0 | How many more police officers? |
| 1:05.0 | 20,000. |
| 1:06.7 | The messages are really landing here. |
| 1:08.5 | That's right. |
| 1:09.3 | How many more nurses? |
| 1:11.1 | 40,000? It's 50,000. So I think we all have worked to you to get. |
| 1:14.4 | Depends on retain in there, doesn't it? |
| 1:16.1 | Cabinet. So I think it adds to this image. If you look at the reshuffle yesterday, something we've spoken about, the fact that |
| 1:21.8 | ultimately there is this focus to make ministers very compliant, to centralise power in number 10, this idea that |
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