Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 22/02/2026
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🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
The Jeffrey Epstein fallout continues, Trump rebukes the Supreme Court with new global tariffs, and the government prepares to announce its new plan for schools.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shops, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday roundup. |
| 0:13.6 | This week, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is arrested. Trump rails against the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs, |
| 0:19.9 | and Labour and the Conservatives |
| 0:21.1 | discuss their plans for education. |
| 0:24.3 | Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was arrested on Thursday over allegations he may have shared confidential |
| 0:29.0 | information with Geoffrey Epstein while acting as trade envoy. Since his arrest, calls have grown |
| 0:34.3 | to remove Mountbatten Windsor from the raw line of succession. |
| 0:42.6 | On Sky News, Trevor Phillips asked Education Secretary Bridget Philipson if the government is considering such a move. When can we expect to see draft legislation excluding the former Prince Andrew |
| 0:48.4 | from the line of succession? So we're not ruling anything out around this, but we have obviously got a live police investigation underway, |
| 0:56.3 | so we'll not be setting out further steps until the police have been able to do their work |
| 1:00.5 | and wherever that investigation, wherever the evidence takes them. |
| 1:03.4 | So you're up for this and also presumably advising the king to remove him from the Privy Council? |
| 1:09.8 | So we've said that we have to keep all of these options available to us, but you'll appreciate |
| 1:14.7 | that because we have a live police investigation underway, it's right that the police are |
| 1:19.1 | allowed to do their job. Once that has concluded, then of course we'll consider in discussion |
| 1:24.1 | with the Royal Family, with the king, what further action is needed. |
| 1:27.8 | But I do just think as well, in all of this, we really shouldn't lose sight of where this |
| 1:33.2 | began. And where this began was with young women and girls being exploited over an extended |
| 1:38.6 | period of time by a network of very powerful men. And we can't ever forget that. |
| 1:43.5 | Well, indeed. |
| 1:50.5 | And it is being said this morning that this whole affair needs a wider investigation. |
| 1:57.6 | One of the suggestions is that there should be an independent judge-led inquiry. Now, I know that that's probably not something that's been discussed specifically, |
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