Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 01/10/23
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 1 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak is in the limelight as the Conservative party conference begins. The polls don't look good for him, but he comes out fighting, claiming he's 'going to do things differently'. The public associate him with personal wealth, does he think that makes him look out of touch? Sunak claims his values are clear, and contrasts himself with the 'hiding' Starmer. Meanwhile, Gove wants tax cuts before the next election, unlike the chancellor and prime minister. Priti Patel isn't impressed with the Home Secretary's comments on multicultralism. And Wes Streeting defends Labour's shifting policies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
| 0:17.3 | The Prime Minister was interviewed by Laura Cunesberg this morning as the Conservative Party |
| 0:21.0 | Conference gets underway in Manchester. |
| 0:24.1 | With polls currently predicting a dire election defeat for the Tories, Sunak was noticeably |
| 0:29.0 | combative in his interview, insisting he would do what he believes is right for the country. |
| 0:34.6 | When Cunesberg accused him of shifting away from pledges made in 2019, Sunak acknowledged |
| 0:39.8 | that people would be critical of him but said he was prepared to change things. |
| 0:44.3 | So much of the 2019 manifesto that you stood on has just disappeared. |
| 0:50.5 | You know, you're wobbling on HS2, you've changed the net zero targets. |
| 0:54.4 | The long-term plan for social care is not happening. |
| 0:57.8 | Your health secretary admitted to us a few weeks ago the 14 new hospitals aren't all going |
| 1:01.5 | to be new hospitals after all. |
| 1:04.3 | You know, your allies are saying, now people are going to see the real Rishi Sunak in |
| 1:07.1 | this second phase. |
| 1:09.2 | But is the real Rishi Sunak someone who's willing to chuck much of the 2019 manifesto over |
| 1:14.4 | the side when you've been behind in the polls? |
| 1:16.2 | You're saying things that are just not true thing with chuck net zero targets, but that's |
| 1:19.4 | just not true. |
| 1:20.4 | I said you shifted it. |
| 1:21.4 | We haven't shifted them. |
| 1:23.2 | They remain left at the same. |
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