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Coffee House Shots

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/09/2025

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.


It feels like an unnervingly normal week for this Labour government, with another sacking set against the backdrop of an anti-government march led by Tommy Robinson.


Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

0:11.9

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

0:15.7

This week, disruption continues for Labour as Keir Starrmaacks his ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson,

0:22.2

and 100,000 protesters march with Tommy Robinson through central London.

0:28.9

Damning emails between Peter Mandelson and Geoffrey Epstein have been made public,

0:33.7

forcing Keir Stama to sack his ambassador to the US just days before President Trump's

0:38.7

scheduled state visit. Details of the emails were reportedly given to Downing Street on Tuesday,

0:44.4

but Stama defended Mandelson in the House of Commons on Wednesday,

0:48.2

apparently not knowing about the content of the emails until Wednesday evening.

0:53.1

On Sky News this morning, business secretary Peter Kyle

0:55.9

said the government had believed that the risk of appointing Mandelson was worth it.

1:00.4

The key thing is that the Prime Minister, within hours of actually seeing the new evidence,

1:05.5

the new information, he took a decisive, he took decisive action.

1:08.8

Let's talk about this, whether this new information.

1:13.4

Prime Minister said the proper process of vetting had been followed.

1:18.4

Are we expected to believe that none of this information was revealed?

1:23.6

I've been vetted, you've been vetted,

1:25.8

and I've been vetted for things which are nowhere near as significant as this job.

1:32.1

And I doubt that had I had this kind of correspondence, it wouldn't have been revealed.

1:38.0

So we're expected to believe that nobody knew about this relationship or the depth of this relationship?

1:44.9

We knew that it was a strong relationship.

1:48.0

We knew all of the public information.

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