Have Labour underestimated Truss?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Cindy Yu speaks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls.
Produced by Cindy Yu and Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, |
| 0:18.6 | the spectators' daily politics broadcast. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and James Forsyth. |
| 0:23.9 | She's listed as first four days Prime Minister with a full government today |
| 0:27.6 | and she has gone to Prime Minister's questions equipped with this full cabinet. |
| 0:31.2 | James, what have you made of her appearance at Prime Minister's questions today? |
| 0:35.2 | So I thought it was a sign of how Prime Minister's questions has changed. |
| 0:37.6 | I think both parties will actually be quite happy with it. |
| 0:40.4 | With Boris Johnson and Kirstal Amit, it was very personal. |
| 0:43.2 | Boris Johnson very rarely answered the question. |
| 0:45.5 | Kirstal Amit's questions were often about Boris Johnson's character rather than anything else. |
| 0:50.7 | Well as today it was different. |
| 0:52.2 | It was, you saw, but not it's not just clearly watered between the two parties, |
| 0:56.1 | but the kind of ideological ocean between Starmer's Labour and Trust's Tories. |
| 1:00.9 | Kirstal Amit was saying, you won't do a windfall tax and this Trust was leaning into it. |
| 1:05.5 | No, I won't do a windfall tax. |
| 1:07.2 | She was ruling it out in such a way that some people are saying, |
| 1:09.2 | oh, she's not giving herself any wiggle room here. |
| 1:11.4 | I think we know that she doesn't want any wiggle room here. |
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