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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators Daily, and these days more than daily politics

podcast, and we are back after the Christmas break. As we look ahead to a new year and a summer

government likes to describe a new dawn, what exactly does Boris Johnson and his team have planned?

Well, to discuss that, I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James

Weashe and we're going to look at the various aspects of the new government. Now they have a majority of 80.

First up, James, we know that this is a government which isn't particularly keen on spending too much of 2020

saying the B word or talking about Brexit. There's a plan to de-dramatise it.

When it comes to the Brexit strategy, where exactly do you think we are heading?

So next week we're going to see the single greatest demonstration of legislative force since the

Blair era as the withdrawal agreement bill has pushed through its common stages in just a few days.

And what that is going to show is that when Boris Johnson wants something,

with this House of Commons, he's got the majority to get it through,

you know, all the endless, you know, roll up that copy of Erskine may,

it will not be wanted these next few years.

All those endless debates about amendments and procedure that we got so used to

in the last parliament are simply irrelevant. You know, we've seen the Labour and the Lib Dems

pulling down amendments, but we know that they are destined for defeat. And I think that this

is designed to send out two messages, one at home and one abroad. The message at home to

voters is we are getting Brexit done as we promised and we will enable the country to

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