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Coffee House Shots

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Round-up

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

As the Conservative party continues to reel from the local elections results, on the Sunday shows this week Energy Secretary Grant Shapps defended Rishi Sunak's record as party leader, while even Boris Johnson ally Jacob Rees-Mogg admitted that the Conservatives cannot change leaders again. On The Laura Kuenssberg Show, Labour's Jonathan Reynolds hit back at claims that Keir Starmer is a changeable character, while AI engineer Emad Mostaque told the show that the technology could be an existential threat to humanity.

Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill and Cindy Yu.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

0:13.5

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

0:17.6

A new potential scandal has threatened to hit Rishi Sunak after a report that Suella Braverman

0:23.1

may have asked civil servants to organise special treatment for her following a speeding

0:27.8

ticket.

0:29.1

She has since accepted the three points on her licence, but Laura Cunesburg asked Conservative

0:33.8

MP Jake Berry if there should be an official investigation into whether she might have

0:38.5

broken the ministerial code by misusing the civil service.

0:42.7

Should there just be an investigation into what Suella Braverman did, just clear it up,

0:46.3

get it out of the way?

0:47.3

Well, I don't think we've seen enough about this story, it certainly brings into question

0:51.7

I think the use of civil service, civil servant, so I think there's definitely questions

0:57.8

to be honest, let's see what said, I guess it will be in the House of Commons an urgent

1:01.3

question or a statement about it on Monday, let's see what said there.

1:04.6

But look, this is part of, you know, people just get speeding fines, right?

1:08.6

You know, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Andy Burnham, Rob Jenry, Tom Tuganat, these

1:13.0

public figures, and you just shouldn't do it in the first place, but if you do get caught,

1:17.8

you just take the medicine.

1:18.8

And let's see where we get to with this case on Monday in the comments.

1:23.9

English water companies have apologised this week after the environment agency figures

1:28.1

showed there were in excess of 300,000 sewage spills last year, investment to improve water

1:34.3

infrastructure is planned, but consumers will have to pay for it through their water bills.

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