Does Zac Goldsmith's resignation matter?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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James Heale speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.
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| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls |
| 0:23.9 | and Fraser Nelson. Now this morning Katie is repairing for the release of the Prime Minister's |
| 0:28.8 | Workforce Plan for the NHS. Zach Goldsmith resigned as a foreign office minister. Tell us about |
| 0:33.2 | this story. So originally, when Zach Goldsmith resigned, he put it at a statement. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm ultimately criticising Rishi Seenak and his government over what he called climate apathy. |
| 0:44.0 | He went into details suggesting that the Prime Minister was not committed in the way predecessors, |
| 0:50.0 | I think, by that he means Boris Johnson, around the necessarily Liz trustworthy. |
| 0:54.8 | And ultimately cited a few things such as a kept animals bill, which has been delayed to the |
| 0:59.6 | point that I think there's just a general sense as being dropped, there's some aspects. I mean, |
| 1:03.6 | brought free separately and an abandoned pledge to spend 11.6 billion of UK aid on climate and |
| 1:09.6 | environment. So that has quickly been panced on and you're seeing some saying this is a sign |
| 1:14.7 | that Rishi Seenak has not committed enough to the green agenda. If you remember when Rishi Seenak |
| 1:18.7 | first became Prime Minister, he initially said he wasn't going to go to COP, then he did go to |
| 1:23.4 | COP. So that's starting to be a narrative in one area. However, ultimately the timing, I think, |
| 1:30.0 | is just quite obviously linked to the Providis Committee report in the sense it's quite hard |
| 1:34.8 | to get away from why else he'd be resigning at this point because it comes a day after he was |
| 1:39.9 | accused of undermining a commons investigation into Boris Johnson and Zach Goldsmith was among 10 |
| 1:45.5 | Tories that Providis Committee said was part of a campaign to interfere with their inquiry. |
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