Fraser Nelson: governments should never own our press
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Also on the podcast, Fraser Nelson responds to Spectator chairman Andrew Neil's comments on BBC's Newsnight last night, on the potential sale of our magazine to UAE-backed RedBird IMI.
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| 0:19.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots, |
| 0:21.5 | The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined today by Fraser Nelson and Case Andrews. |
| 0:28.6 | NHS consultants have rejected another pay increase offer by the government. |
| 0:33.0 | Kate, can you give us the details? |
| 0:35.0 | So the BMA put to the NHS consultants this deal that it had temporarily struck with the government, |
| 0:41.0 | which would have seen an additional almost 5% given to |
| 0:44.9 | consultants for their pay on top of the 6% that was already offered last spring |
| 0:49.0 | in the broader pay package deal for NHS workers. |
| 0:53.5 | Consultants have very narrowly shot this down. |
| 0:55.6 | It was by 51% of the vote that they rejected it. |
| 0:59.1 | It is notable that they've said they're not immediately going back on strike. |
| 1:02.1 | They want to try to |
| 1:02.8 | negotiate more with the government. I think there are two ways of looking at this. |
| 1:06.2 | The first is that timing matters here. One of the difficulties for the government |
| 1:11.0 | about this decision is that it has come just after Ritchie |
| 1:15.1 | Sunak and Jeremy Hunt made a big deal in the Sunday papers last weekend that tax |
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