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Coffee House Shots

Does Sunak's maths plan add up?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Parliament is back from the Easter break and Rishi Sunak has taken the opportunity to reiterate his commitment to improving maths literacy in the country. Listeners will remember that the plan to make maths compulsory until 18 was first announced in Rishi's new year's speech along with his five priorities. Why is maths provision so important to him?

Also on the podcast, with local elections on the horizon, how does Tory campaigning shape up against Labour's new tactics? 

Cindy Yu speaks to Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman. 

Produced by Cindy Yu and Oscar Edmondson. 

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0:00.0

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0:19.6

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

0:23.4

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bors and Isabel Hardman.

0:27.0

And now today is the first day back of Parliament after recess.

0:30.5

Katie, what do we have on the agenda for the government in this new term?

0:34.4

So it's begun with a subject close to Vishnu's next heart, Maths.

0:39.1

And he has given a speech about the need to learn maths until 18 and also how people shouldn't

0:46.1

be dismissive. We should have more positive attitude, it's key to growing their economy

0:50.0

and we should be able to compete with other countries which tend to have much better mass proficiency.

0:55.3

This may all sound a little bit familiar because Vishnu has said very similar things

1:00.0

first during the first leadership contest and then obviously at the beginning of the year,

1:05.8

when he had that five priority speech, he also spoke maths and you had a situation where

1:10.4

the line they pre-briefed the day before the speech was the maths line which definitely led

1:14.8

some touring piece to think is this the vision. And I think there was some relief and Len moved

1:20.0

on the next day and it was five priorities. It was almost a way of trying to get that bit out

1:24.0

the way so you could focus on this. I think it is interesting as some have pointed out to me

1:28.8

of in the Tory party that this is how Vishnu has a decided to kickstart the return of the new term

1:34.8

but also during the local elections campaign. You think about what Labour are doing. They are doing

1:39.2

very targeted crime week, health week, trying to get the messages out. Whereas the Tories of

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