Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 09/06/2024
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Mel Stride defends the prime minister after his D-Day gaffe. Farage criticises Sunak, and Amber Rudd criticises Farage. Meanwhile, Labour's Shabana Mahmood and the SNP's Stephen Flynn speak about their own parties' priorities.
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
| 0:17.8 | Ritchie Sunak has been accused of making a massive error of judgment after he left the |
| 0:22.1 | D-Day commemorations early on Thursday, |
| 0:25.0 | leaving Foreign Secretary David Cameron to deputise for him at the International Leaders' |
| 0:29.2 | Event. |
| 0:30.2 | Speaking to work and pension Secretary Mel Stride, Sky News is Trevor Phillips asked whether the |
| 0:35.7 | Prime Minister understood the weight of the event. |
| 0:38.6 | The point is, the Prime Minister represents this, actually, President of United States, |
| 0:47.0 | Chancellor of Germany, President of France, |
| 0:51.0 | our foreign minister, former Prime minister. Now it just makes the country embarrassed and |
| 0:58.8 | the reason is that the reason I think this has become such a big deal is this. |
| 1:04.0 | Let me put it this way. |
| 1:06.0 | The Prime Minister is never slow to boast about his facility with numbers. |
| 1:12.0 | In the Battle of Normandy, the Americans lost 29,000 soldiers, the |
| 1:16.9 | Canadian 5,000, the French 12,000, we won't even talk about what happened to the |
| 1:21.9 | Germans. |
| 1:23.0 | Did the Prime Minister not know those numbers, or did he just not care? |
| 1:27.0 | That's the question. |
| 1:28.0 | I think the question is... |
| 1:31.0 | No, the question was... |
| 1:32.0 | Did he know? I don't know. I don't know. is record. Hold on, look at what he did on Thursday. |
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