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Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Isabel Hardman talks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management, |
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| 0:21.3 | Hello and welcome to the House of Shots, |
| 0:23.2 | a spectator's daily form to explore the Christ. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Isabelle Harbour and I'm joined by Kate Balls and James Versailles. |
| 0:29.7 | Well, it's quite a depressing news agenda today in Westminster. |
| 0:34.7 | We have the ongoing allegations that someone watched pornography in the House of Commons Chamber, |
| 0:40.1 | allegations from a female Labour MP claiming that a member of the Shadow Cabinet |
| 0:45.0 | described her as a secret weapon because men want to sleep with her. |
| 0:49.9 | And Labour MP Liam Byrne being suspended from the Commons for two days after being found to |
| 0:56.0 | have bullied a former member of staff, not a great day for the image of Westminster. |
| 1:02.0 | And the Attorney General, Suella Braveman, has been talking about this on Women's Hour today. |
| 1:07.5 | Here's what she had to say. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm not aware of the details, but over the last 24 hours, I keep running through my mind, |
| 1:14.0 | how and why someone would be so brazen, as you say, so reckless, so stupid, |
| 1:20.0 | so appallingly badly behaved to be watching porn in the workplace, |
| 1:26.1 | in broad daylight, in the presence of colleagues. |
| 1:28.2 | What would possess them? It's totally unacceptable. |
| 1:30.8 | And the group of women that we're talking about from this meeting, |
| 1:34.0 | and it's largely anonymous, and in this case, we don't know who the women are, |
| 1:37.6 | who've reported this, one of whom is reported to be a member of the Cabinet, actually. |
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