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🗓️ 6 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It's Ed Balls and me, George Osborne, here from our podcast Political Currency. |
| 0:05.6 | And we're really excited to tell you about a special series with David Cameron on the first six months as Prime Minister. |
| 0:12.1 | Letters to Trident submarine captains, hostage crises, that first budget. |
| 0:17.0 | There's so much we pack into those first few months. |
| 0:20.0 | This is David Cameron, as you've never heard him before. |
| 0:23.2 | It's Barack Obama on the telephone going, well done, David, enjoyed this moment. |
| 0:26.9 | It's all downhill from here. |
| 0:28.2 | I've had my rouse with sarcozy over the years, but whenever I see him, I always give him this big hug. |
| 0:33.3 | Thank him for letting me see my dad before he died. |
| 0:35.7 | Listen, enjoy, be provoked. |
| 0:38.4 | Inside number 10, |
| 0:43.6 | David Cameron, the first six months. Search for political currency wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oscar Edmonton, and I'm joined today by |
| 0:54.6 | Isabelle Hardman and James Heel. And in a speech this morning, the Prime Minister has |
| 0:59.0 | unveiled his plans to tackle the NHS backlog. And in that same speech, he did hit back at the |
| 1:04.4 | comments that Elon Musk has made regarding grooming gangs and about the Prime Minister's own |
| 1:08.4 | role in their prosecution. But Isabel, perhaps if we start |
| 1:11.9 | with what the government would like to talk about, which is this plan to slash NHS waiting |
| 1:16.8 | lists, could you take us through Kirstama's prescription for the NHS? Yes, so this was the |
| 1:22.9 | topic of Kirstarmer's speech this morning, which is the NHS England elective recovery plan. |
| 1:30.3 | And its key aim is to meet the 18-week waiting standard for elective treatment by March 2029. |
| 1:41.3 | So in the plan it says that by March 2026, the percentage of patients waiting |
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