Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 21/01/24
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Grant Shapps calls Netanyahu's rejection of a two-state solution 'disappointing', and talks UK defence spending. Yvette Cooper is vague on immigration policy. Humza Yousaf accuses politicians of lacking moral courage. And John Bolton thinks the West should attack Iran directly.
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House shops the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup. |
| 0:17.4 | On a call with Joe Biden this weekend, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 0:21.8 | reiterated Israel's demand for security control over Gazagnet. Minister bin |
| 0:23.5 | Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, |
| 0:21.5 | reiterated Israel's demand for security control over Gaza |
| 0:25.0 | once Hamas has been destroyed, |
| 0:27.0 | and said that this was incompatible with Palestinian sovereignty. |
| 0:30.8 | Speaking to Laura Koonsberg, UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps described Netanyahu's views as very disappointing and said that the two-state solution is the only option. |
| 0:40.0 | However, he described Israel's government as a rainbow coalition and said it was important |
| 0:45.7 | to distinguish between the views of Netagnahu as an individual and the UK's support for |
| 0:50.3 | Israel as a country. |
| 0:51.7 | What their political leaders also instruct or decide obviously matters enormously |
| 0:56.0 | and maybe nowhere more so right now than in Israel. |
| 0:59.0 | Now Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader there, his spokesman said overnight, |
| 1:03.2 | after Hamas is destroyed, Israel must retain security control over Gaza. |
| 1:07.8 | That is a requirement that contradicts the demand for Palestinian sovereignty. |
| 1:12.1 | Now it's been the UK's position and many other countries for a long time that there must |
| 1:16.0 | be two states, the two states solution. |
| 1:19.1 | What is the UK doing to urge him to shift that view? I think it's very disappointing that Benjamin Netanyahu has said that. |
| 1:27.0 | It's not in some sense as a surprise. |
| 1:29.0 | He's spent his entire political career against a two-state solution. But the point is which other |
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