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Coffee House Shots

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Interviews Roundup

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Isabel Hardman is here to take you through the best of the Sunday interviews. Today's highlights come from Tom Watson, Andy McDonald, David Davis, Jeremy Hunt and Ben Bradshaw. This podcast was produced by Matthew Taylor.

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0:03.0

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0:04.4

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0:12.9

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0:29.4

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0:32.0

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0:33.2

From The Spectator, out now.

0:46.7

Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shot to The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

0:49.7

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

0:55.3

Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson joined Andrew Marr to talk about his leader's defence of a mural,

1:01.3

apparently depicting wealthy Jewish financiers playing monopoly on the backs of enslaved members of the working class.

1:06.8

In 2012, Jeremy Corbyn had expressed disappointment that the mural was to be removed by the authorities.

1:15.6

Corbin has since said that I sincerely regret I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on, the contents of which are deeply disturbing and anti-Semitic.

1:29.3

Mark queried Watson as to why Corbin has backed the mural in the first place. What is your reaction when you see that image? My reaction is that is a horrible, anti-Semitic mural that was rightly taken down. And how long did it take you to glance at that, to make that judgment?

1:33.3

Well, look, are you showing at me on a 32-inch screen on national television, and I've seen it about 100 times on social media?

1:40.3

Very different to seeing it on Facebook when you're in on the move because your leader

1:45.3

with apparently glanced at it didn't look at it properly and suggested to the guy

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