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Coffee House Shots

Did Starmer win PMQs?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

There was a sombre tone as Boris Johnson faced Keir Starmer at the despatch box for PMQs. This was seen as one of the Labour leader's most successful outings as he emphasised finding common ground on tackling certain issues like online abuse, extremism and terrorism

Cindy Yu is joined by Katy Balls and James Forsyth

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0:15.4

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bors and James Forsy.

0:23.6

So it's Wednesday which means there was being another Prime Minister's questions.

0:27.8

Now Katie, how do you think this one went for Kiyosama and Boris Johnson?

0:33.5

But it had a different tone to it in terms of this prime minister's questions compared to previous

0:38.0

because we've obviously recently had the tragic news regarding both Sir David Amos and also James

0:42.9

Brokenshire and therefore the initial part was tributes. And then I think it was interesting

0:49.3

how Kirstama's questions were all related to tackling extremism online but he also turned the fact

0:57.3

that he is often accused of not being a showman something he talked about in his Labour leader's

1:02.2

speech you know saying well people say you have to be that Boris Johnson you know I don't I don't

1:06.6

think you need to be to actually almost play into his strengths in terms of his seriousness.

1:12.4

And I think the questions are fairly focused, but also meant that when Boris Johnson went

1:17.3

for more lighthearted or a bit more attack, Kirstarman could reply saying, actually, no,

1:22.5

now it's the time for seriousness and politics, which I think plenty of people in the house

1:26.4

do agree with that this is the time

1:28.2

for that. Yeah, and James, do you think Boris Johnson should have changed his tone a little bit at

1:31.8

this context? I thought it was one of the Kirstalman's most effective points at PMQ's because he set

1:35.8

the mood of the house. And as Casey said, there were various points when Boris Johnson tried to go

1:40.0

back to the kind of usual Prime Ministereless question style politics well why did lay party

1:45.3

vote against on the sentences and and a verb for people convicted of various serious fences

1:49.4

kiosolmah very clever he didn't rise to that bait he said no look we're not going to do that

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