How much does the investigation into Sunak matter?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:18.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today |
| 0:21.4 | by Katie Balls' spectator and Paul Goodman, a conservative home. |
| 0:25.1 | Katie, today I think the amount of the front page has been dominated by what's |
| 0:28.8 | been happening with Rishi Sunak and the Parliamentary Christian for Standards |
| 0:31.9 | opening investigation into one of his interests which it's alleged in Claire |
| 0:36.4 | properly. Talk us through the story really and you know how much of a kind of |
| 0:41.3 | significant impact is this going to be on politics and does it pose any |
| 0:44.6 | reputational risk to Rishi Sunak at all? Well I think just the fact that |
| 0:47.6 | story is which is doing Rishi Sunak being investigated by Parliament Watchdog. |
| 0:51.6 | I think the spectator does a sleaze Watchdog by whoever is the right |
| 0:55.3 | stiff. I can have some people tweeting saying that it's unfair. |
| 0:58.1 | You know as soon as you have headlines saying that you have a situation where |
| 1:01.6 | it's clear you're not a net positive for the Prime Minister. |
| 1:04.6 | I think if you scratch the surface it's not clear to me that it's you know |
| 1:10.5 | so perilous or significant for Rishi Sunak. I think it's certainly unhelpful |
| 1:16.6 | but it comes down to what you register. So there's been some comparison saying |
| 1:19.5 | how it shows you Tory sleaze from Boris Johnson to Rishi Sunak. |
| 1:23.3 | The Tory's cannot escape it and that's certainly you know a line that some |
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