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Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

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

The Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab took to the TV studios this morning

after another turbulent week for the government. Perhaps the most pressing issue on the agenda

is deciphering the motives of Vladimir Putin as reported 100,000 Russian troops envelop Ukraine's eastern

border. Trevor Phillips asked Rab what was being done in the West to try and face down Putin

as the icy Ukrainian winter threatens to heat up. We wouldn't telegraph all of the measures

that we would take, but it's important that this very clear message, not just from the UK,

but from all NATO and other interested countries around the world who

want to uphold the rule of law, that there'll be very serious, severe economic consequences.

And of course, Ukraine will defend itself.

Like what?

Well, it will obviously involve a range of financial and economic sanctions.

We wouldn't telegraph those in advance.

What you can rest assured is that the Foreign Secretary, the Foreign Office, and the Defense Secretary,

will be liaising with all of our partners engaging, and we have been doing so for many months,

to make sure that the response is robust and concerted.

At the same time, of course, what we really want is to get this message so clearly

to Moscow that President Putin walks away from the brink. That is the off-ramp that we would all

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