Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 17/05/2026
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
Lisa Nandy backs Keir Starmer, as ministers resign and potential leadership challengers circle.
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| 0:33.7 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
| 0:44.3 | This week, ministers resign from Kirstarmer's government as Andy Burnham prepares to contest |
| 0:49.2 | the Makerfield by-election. |
| 0:52.0 | West Streeting has resigned as Health Secretary and declared that he would stand in a leadership |
| 0:56.0 | contest. |
| 0:57.3 | Meanwhile, Josh Simon stepped down as Makerfield MP to allow Andy Burnham the chance to return |
| 1:02.1 | to Westminster. |
| 1:04.0 | On Sky News this morning, Trevor Phillips asked Culture Secretary Lisa Nandi if Kirstama would |
| 1:09.0 | be gone by summer. |
| 1:09.8 | Do you expect Kirstama to have left number 10 down in Downing Street in time for the summer |
| 1:15.9 | school holidays? No, I don't. I've spoken to the Prime Minister several times over the last |
| 1:24.2 | week and he was very clear with the cabinet on Tuesday that if people want to challenge him |
| 1:30.6 | there is a process for doing that there is a way to trigger a leadership contest to be leader of |
| 1:35.6 | the Labour Party and to succeed him as Prime Minister nobody has done that yet despite the |
| 1:40.1 | absolute feverish speculation every hour on the hour for the last week, I've read that |
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