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🗓️ 16 December 2019

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With Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth.

Presented by Katy Balls.

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0:00.0	Just before you start listening to this podcast, a reminder that we have a special subscription offer.
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0:17.5	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators daily and leads days more than daily politics podcast.
0:23.9	It's the beginning of a new dawn, a new era perhaps, as MPs from across the country head to Parliament for the first week of Tory majority government in quite some time.
0:35.1	Boris Johnson has a majority of 80. We've seen pitches and snaps of
0:38.9	Tory MPs recently elected from the once Red Wall, we might now begin to call it blue,
0:44.8	heading down to take their seats. James, what do we have in store in terms of what's going to
0:49.7	happen in Parliament this week? Today it seems that MPs are mainly just getting their
0:53.0	inductions. Yeah, so what we will see is all these new MPs arriving. I was walking past the lockers
0:58.7	set up for the new MPs. And it's quite telling there about three big banks of lockers for
1:03.5	the Conservative MPs. And there's a very small sign saying new Labour MPs and a very small
1:08.3	set of lockers, which I think tells you what you need to know. And I think
1:11.9	one of the things for the Tories is they are sending MPs to Westminster from constituencies that
1:16.6	have never elected a Tory MP before. There are regional concentrations of Tories, you know, self-reinforcing.
1:23.3	I think if you think about it, one of the things that were so effective about the Tory victory in
1:26.5	the South West against the Liberal Democrats in 2015 was for the whole region turned blue,
1:31.1	meaning which has made it easier for them to hold on to those seats.
1:34.7	Similar things have happened in the Tees Valley and North Wales and other bits of the so-called Red War.
1:41.1	So on Thursday we will get the Queen's Speech, which will set out the government's
1:44.2	agenda. And this will be unlike almost any Queen's Speech we've had since 2010, in that we will
1:50.2	know that every single Bill in that Queen's speech is going to pass because he has a majority.
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