Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 13/10/2024
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 13 October 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Reynolds says Transport Secretary Louise Haigh’s comments are ‘not the government’s position’, and hints at possible employer national insurance tax rises. Robert Jenrick is asked about his previous anti-Brexit views. John Swinney pays tribute to Alex Salmond, after the death of the former Scottish first minister. And Lloyds bank CEO speaks about the issue of online fraud.
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup. |
| 0:17.6 | This week Transport Secretary Louise Haig described Piano Ferries as a rogue operator and encouraged consumers to boycott the company, |
| 0:26.2 | leading its parent company, DP World, to threaten to pull out to the government's investment |
| 0:31.0 | summit on Monday and put a reported 1 billion |
| 0:34.2 | worth of investment into the UK on hold. Kiestam has said that Haig's comments |
| 0:39.8 | were not the view of the government, despite previous government press releases using the same language. |
| 0:45.0 | Speaking to Law Coonsburg this morning, |
| 0:48.0 | Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds echoed the Prime Minister's words. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm going to play our audience in case they missed it, |
| 0:53.8 | what your colleague the Transport Secretary Louise Hayes |
| 0:55.7 | said about DP World that owns P&O ferries this week. |
| 1:00.0 | They're a rogue operator. |
| 1:02.0 | We're cracking down on the way that they've treated employees |
| 1:05.0 | and we want to see them mirror the standards of other operators that come in and out of |
| 1:09.5 | Great Britain's waters. They will not... |
| 1:12.0 | Well, do you travel with P&O ferries? No, I've been boycotting P and |
| 1:14.0 | no ferries for two and a half years and I'd encourage consumers to do the same. |
| 1:18.0 | Okay, what part of that do you disagree with? |
| 1:21.0 | Look, we have always said, and we believe, that what happened with Pino Furries was wrong. |
| 1:26.6 | I believe even the Conservative government at the time was clear that they believed it was wrong. |
| 1:31.0 | The problem was, it was lawful then. It's not going to be lawful now and so we have changed the |
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