Isabel Hardman’s Sunday Roundup – 06/11/22
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Canacore Genuity Wealth Management, experienced wealth planners |
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| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Aspa Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
| 0:26.0 | The Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden joined Laura Coonsburg this morning |
| 0:30.0 | and was asked to account for a series of irate and expletive laden messages |
| 0:34.0 | sent by the Conservative MP Gavin Williamson to the previous Chief Whip, Wendy Morton. |
| 0:39.0 | Williamson, who has since been appointed to Rishi Sunak's cabinet, |
| 0:43.0 | had accused Morton of punishing MPs by not inviting them to Queen Elizabeth's funeral |
| 0:49.0 | and declared his unwillingness to cooperate with the trust government. |
| 0:53.0 | Coonsburg asked if Sunak had shown good judgement in welcoming Williamson back to Whitehall. |
| 0:58.0 | For the audience these aren't messages we can put up on the screen here |
| 1:01.0 | that Gavin Williamson, who I think you're his boss in the Cabinet Office, |
| 1:05.0 | the Government Minister, sent to the then Chief Whip, Wendy Morton. |
| 1:08.0 | Now I'm not going to read out everything they say because they're pretty vile, |
| 1:11.0 | they contain some pretty unpleasant language. |
| 1:13.0 | Is that an accept to always talk to a colleague? |
| 1:16.0 | No, it's not and these were sent in the heat of the moment at a very difficult time. |
| 1:21.0 | Gavin accepts that he shouldn't have said these things and that he regrets it |
| 1:27.0 | and we should all treat each other with respect and courtesy and that was not the case. |
| 1:33.0 | The problem with this is that Rishi Sunak, your boss, |
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