Isabel Hardman's Sunday Round-up
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:30.6 | Music Learn more at PMI.com slash progress. Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
| 0:39.9 | A new potential scandal has threatened to hit Rishi Sunak after a report that Suella |
| 0:44.6 | Everman may have asked civil servants to organise a special treatment for her following a speeding |
| 0:50.1 | ticket. She has since accepted the three points on her licence, but Laura Coonsberg asked Conservative |
| 0:56.1 | MP Jake Berry if there should be an official investigation into whether she might have broken |
| 1:01.1 | the ministerial code by misusing the civil service. Should there just be an investigation into |
| 1:06.5 | what Suella Braverman did, just clear it up, get it out of the way? Well, I don't think we've |
| 1:10.4 | seen enough about this story. It certainly brings into question, I think, the use of civil servants. So I think there's definitely questions to be answered. Let's see what's said. I guess it will be in the House of Commons, an urgent question or a statement about it on Monday. Let's see what's said there. But look, this is part of, you know, people just get speeding fines, right? |
| 1:27.5 | You know, the Archbishop of Canterbury, |
| 1:32.4 | Andy Burnham, Rob Jenrick, Tom Tuganat, these public figures. And you just shouldn't do it in the |
| 1:38.4 | first place. But if you do get caught, you just take the medicine. And let's see where we get to |
| 1:42.5 | with this case on Monday in the comments. |
| 1:46.2 | English water companies have apologised this week after the Environment Agency figures |
| 1:50.4 | showed there were in excess of 300,000 sewage spills last year. |
| 1:55.3 | Investment to improve water infrastructure is planned, |
| 1:57.9 | but consumers will have to pay for it through their water bills. |
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