Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 24/03/2024
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt does the rounds this week, saying the Russian government is creating a smokescreen of propaganda out of the Moscow terrorist attack. Hunt also guarantees the continuation of the pension 'triple lock', but not compensation for the WASPI women. Labour Party Chair Anneliese Dodds is asked about Labour's approach to zero hour contracts, and the former communications secretary to Prince William says last week's social media storm was the worst he's seen.
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:34.0 | podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday |
| 0:37.4 | Roundup. On Friday night, an horrific terrorist attack at a |
| 0:41.3 | large concert in Moscow led to at least 133 deaths. |
| 0:45.0 | Russian officials vowed revenge and suggested Ukrainian involvement, |
| 0:49.0 | despite the Islamic State claiming responsibility. |
| 0:52.0 | On Sky News this morning |
| 0:53.8 | Trevor Phillips asked Chancellor Jeremy Hunt whether Russia's version of the |
| 0:56.8 | events could be believed. How much trust do you think we should be placing |
| 1:01.7 | in the Russian accounts of what's happened? |
| 1:04.9 | The people they have in custody, they claim to be the perpetrators, they're talking about |
| 1:10.9 | Ukrainian involvement. |
| 1:13.0 | How much should we believe them? |
| 1:15.0 | Well, I think we have very little confidence in anything the Russian government says. |
| 1:20.0 | We know that they are creating a smoke screen of propaganda to defend an utterly evil |
| 1:27.0 | invasion of Ukraine. |
| 1:30.4 | But that doesn't mean that it's not a tragedy when innocent people lose their lives when you have horrible bombings. |
| 1:37.5 | But I take what the Russian government says with an enormous pinch of salt. |
| 1:41.5 | I'm afraid after what we've seen from them over the last few years. |
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