Did Rishi win at PMQs?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak faced up against Keir Starmer in his first Prime Minister's Questions today, and rallied the Conservative backbenches to a more enthusiastic mood than has been seen in, perhaps, months. Cindy Yu talks to Katy Balls and James Forsyth about the attack lines that Labour are trying out at the moment (on everything from the appointment of Suella Braverman to Rishi Sunak's comments about diverting money away from 'deprived urban areas').

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0:16.0	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.
0:19.6	I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bors and James Forsyth.
0:23.0	So, James, today we had where you see an ex-first Prime Minister's questions.
0:26.5	How do you think he did?
0:28.0	So, the new Prime Minister's first PMQs are both easy and difficult.
0:32.8	They are easy to the extent that they tend not to have taken that many decisions in office
0:38.4	that can be attacked.
0:40.3	They are difficult in that in the new Prime Minister's first days in the job.
0:45.4	There are a whole bunch of things that they have to do, which means that your time is really
0:50.5	eating up and you're doing lots of stuff.
0:51.9	So, you know, yesterday you had Rishi Sunaik going to go to see King Charles,
0:56.2	comes back to Downstreet, gives a speech there, then does a cabinet read-cut shuffle,
1:00.5	then calls President Zelensky and President Biden,
1:03.3	speaks to the First Minister of Wales in Scotland, then has to do PMQs today.
1:07.5	So, that is the kind of the mixture of the challenges.
1:10.0	Now, look, I've known him for years, obviously,
1:13.1	but I actually thought that the most encouraging thing for him from PMQs today
1:17.6	was how the Tory ventures rally to him.
1:21.5	This, I think, is the happiest.
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