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Coffee House Shots

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 04/12/22

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Isabel Hardman presents the highlights from Sunday's political programmes. Featured today are Nadhim Zahawi, Bridget Phillipson and Iain Duncan Smith. 

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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

0:23.0

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

0:27.0

The Conservative Party chairman, the Deem Zahawi, was in the hot seat this morning,

0:31.0

and he spoke to Sophie Ridge about the high likelihood of more strikes taking place over winter.

0:36.0

With industrial action threatening the NHS, schools, the fire service, postal workers and many more,

0:42.0

Zahawi stressed that the government was looking at all options

0:45.0

to try to keep the country's public services operating over a December of discontent.

0:50.0

It's important for the government as the right and responsible thing to do

0:54.0

to have contingency plans in place.

0:57.0

And we have a very strong team at Cobra and I was when I was in the seat of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

1:06.0

We were doing a lot of the work in looking at what we need to do to minimise the disruption to people's lives.

1:14.0

It's unfair for you're travelling at Christmas for the Board of Force or any other workforce

1:21.0

to really disrupt people's lives or livelihoods.

1:24.0

Let's look at the specifics. Are you talking about the military being involved? Soldiers could be driving ambulances?

1:30.0

So we're looking at the military, we're looking at a specialist response force

1:34.0

which we've actually set up a number of years ago, the surge capacity to be able to deal with,

1:42.0

in the unfortunate circumstance, if you do have, say, a strike or a border force,

1:48.0

you've got to be able to make sure that there is a minimum disruption.

1:51.0

The most important thing is to secure...

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