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Coffee House Shots

Is Sunak making a mistake on the NI protocol?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Conservative Home editor Paul Goodman about the union. Both in terms of Nicola Sturgeon's sudden decision to resign this morning and the possibility of an imminent agreement on the Northern Ireland protocol. 

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0:00.0

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0:16.4

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Heal and I'm joined today

0:19.8

at Spectators' Bliss Club at 780 Bulls, and a special guest in the Electric Concert at Home with Paul Goodman.

0:25.0

The topic we're discussing today is the Union and First of all,

0:28.0

Nicola Sturgeon's resignation. Katie First, do you think perhaps that this

0:33.6

news today is of indication of what Richie's United did last month with the section 35

0:38.2

order and more broadly perhaps downing streets on going union strategy towards Scotland?

0:43.2

So I think there was already a vindication on the section 35 order in the sense the polling,

0:47.7

particularly polling that came out yesterday has suggested a majority of Scots back,

0:52.0

Richie's Unack, for blocking that bill and obviously it's the first time ever a section 35

0:56.8

order had been used and at the time there are lots of headlines saying

1:01.8

Tories are waging, you know, dangerous culture war and some are stressing, oh we're not happy with this

1:07.5

and I think as time has gone on actually the argument which is quite carefully made in Dining Street

1:13.1

I think has pulled very, you know, if you're hearing more from Alice to Jack it's an argument

1:17.0

about the constitution and legislation. As opposed to you hear from Kami Badenark it's more

1:21.5

that's a person standing out it's more perhaps identity politics is that

1:25.2

anger they're going obviously corresponds to the briefs but I think the way they pitched it

1:30.8

and also the reaction also then what happened with the rapist prisoner and a female

1:36.0

prison in Scotland has meant that lots of people just think it is bad legislation

1:41.0

it's also rushed legislation and therefore you have quite a rare situation I would say

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