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🗓️ 3 October 2025
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The general election result of 2024 reflected – among other things – a collapse of trust among British voters in the Conservatives. How can the British right evolve so it learns lessons from the past and from across the pond, in order to win back its base?
This is an excerpt from an event hosted by The Spectator and American Compass; a leading US think tank. The panel includes:
Robert Jenrick MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and MP for Newark
Miriam Cates, former MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge and GB News Presenter
Gavin Rice, head of political economy at Onward
Nick Timothy, MP for West Suffolk
Henry Olsen, Senior Fellow, Ethics & Public Policy Centre
Produced by Oscar Edmondson and Patrick Gibbons.
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| 0:48.4 | Hello and welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. I'm Tim Shipman, |
| 0:52.4 | the Spectator's political editor. Now what you're about to listen to is a panel discussion that took place at the spectator on the future of the right, |
| 1:28.1 | organised by the think tank Onward. Gavin Rice from Onward sat down with Conservative MP's Robert Jenrick and Nick Timothy, the fore-the-fellow MP and now broadcaster Miriam Kates, and the American voice you're going to hear is Henry Olson of the Ethics and Public Policy Centre in Washington, D.C. Now this is an interesting discussion, and if you want to see more on this event, I did a blog on it at the time under the headline, what the Tories should learn from Trump. And it's an interesting conversation about where the similarities lie between Britain and America, the populist right on both sides, and what lessons can be drawn, but also quite importantly, |
| 1:32.0 | I think, what lessons should not be drawn? You'll hear Robert Generic warning that Britain is headed for a debt crisis, but he says British Conservatives must take a different approach |
| 1:36.2 | from the American right. Generic and Timothy both called for Britain to re-industrialise, |
| 1:40.6 | which is something that Kemi Badenock has taken up in her interview with me in The Spectator this week as well, |
| 1:45.8 | particularly on energy policy, the British right tried to learn from Trump's devotion to fossil fuels there. |
| 1:52.7 | And with that, I'll hand you over to the panellists. |
| 1:55.0 | Brilliant. Well, Gavin, thank you for the info. I'm sorry to keep you waiting today. |
| 1:58.6 | I got stuck on a broken down train from my constituency, |
| 2:02.4 | which you've ever looking for a parallel of a parable of the breakdown of the British state. |
| 2:07.1 | That was it. |
| 2:08.4 | The times when you wish you were on Marine 1, that was one of them. |
| 2:12.7 | But anyway, I'm here, and so thank you very much for organizing this today. |
| 2:16.4 | I thought I'd focus on four things, which are huge challenges facing this country and the |
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