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Coffee House Shots

Does the government support Trump’s Iran strikes?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The weekend saw the US launch airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites, with Tehran warning of ‘everlasting consequences’. Despite an emergency Cobra meeting and Luke Pollard’s morning media round, we are still waiting for an answer on whether the government supports Trump’s action. Keir Starmer’s assured and confident position on the world stage now looks to be in peril, as he is pulled between Trump, his attorney general and the court of public opinion. Can he de-escalate?


Also on the podcast, Nigel Farage delivered a speech this morning in which he announced changes to non-doms and unveiled a new ‘Britannia card’ – although most of the questions afterwards centred on the situation in the Middle East. This comes after Ipsos polling gave Reform UK a record nine-point lead over the Labour party. How has Reform managed to cultivate this new coalition?


Oscar Edmondson speaks to Tim Shipman and James Heale.


Produced by Oscar Edmondson.

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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oskedminton,

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and I'm joined today by Tim Shipman and James Heel. Now, Nigel Farage has just delivered an interesting speech,

0:56.3

which included announcements on nondoms and a new Britannia card.

1:01.4

We'll come on to that shortly, but first, the weekend, of course,

1:04.3

saw the US launch bomb strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities,

1:08.1

with Tehran warning of everlasting consequences. Now, James, the big question

1:13.2

for Kirstama is, of course, whether the government support Trump's campaign.

1:17.1

Well, we're still not clear on that because we've had media round this morning by Luke Pollard,

1:21.3

the junior defence minister, David Lamy, as well. They just seem unable to answer the question

1:25.4

about whether the UK does support the action taken in the early hours of Sunday morning to bomb the three Iranian nuclear sites. And I think it really does show that the UK government has been playing catch-up on this all week. Tuesday, we had the rather breezy assertion by Kier Stama that it wasn't on Donald Trump's mind that he would attack Iran. Then we saw the whole row

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