Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 13/07/2025
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 13 July 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning’s political shows.
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander faces questions over the shrinking economy, possible autumn tax rises, and the migrant deal with France. Plus, the Ofcom CEO says new regulations are a big moment for online safety, and Chris Philp says Reform don't have the answers, after more Conservatives defect to the party.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
| 0:15.0 | This week, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is grilled over the shrinking economy. |
| 0:20.3 | The off-com CEO says new regulations are a big |
| 0:23.2 | moment for online safety and Chris Philp says Conservative MPs defecting to reform have got it wrong. |
| 0:30.9 | On the 25th of July, the Online Safety Act to regulations will come into force for social media |
| 0:36.0 | companies who will have to either remove harmful content or use age checks to protect children on their platforms. |
| 0:43.8 | On the BBC, Laura Coonsberg asked Offcom CEO Melanie Dawes if she was confident that the new rules would be effective. |
| 0:51.5 | But can you guarantee from later this month that children are going to be protected |
| 0:56.0 | from seeing harmful content online? |
| 0:58.0 | Look, it is a really big moment because finally the laws are coming into force and in fact |
| 1:03.0 | some of them are already in force and we've already opened investigations into 11 companies |
| 1:08.0 | that are not doing what we think they should be doing. |
| 1:10.0 | What happens at the end of this month is that we see the wider protections for children come online. |
| 1:16.1 | And so what we're expecting to see then is that any company that shows material that shouldn't be available to under 18s, |
| 1:22.5 | pornography, suicide and self-harm material, that should be either removed from their service or they're going to need highly effective age checks to screen out under 18s. |
| 1:32.0 | There's a lot more than that, but this is a big moment. And we're already starting to see some change, but we're under no illusions at Ofcom about the really quite challenging path ahead. |
| 1:42.1 | How on earth is that actually going to work? So you can understand with a porn site that advertises itself that way, |
| 1:48.0 | where there might be an age check that might already be there. |
| 1:51.0 | But if it's about X or Instagram or Facebook and a 14-year-old goes online and see something, |
| 1:57.0 | how is it actually physically going to work to make sure they don't see harmful things? |
| 2:00.0 | How are they going to check? |
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