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Coffee House Shots

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 27/06/21

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Isabel Hardman rounds up the best from Sunday's political shows. Highlights come from Brandon Lewis, Lucy Powell, Sadiq Khan and Dr Chaand Nagpaul. 

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0:25.2

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

0:30.7

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. There is only one story in town at the moment

0:36.3

and that is the resignation of Matt Hancock

0:38.8

after he was caught in flagrante with his advisor Gina Colladangelo in his office at the

0:44.4

Department of Health. Hancock had originally tried to cling on to his post, but eventually

0:49.2

his position became untenable. The Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Brandon Lewis, was fielding the government's

0:55.0

interviews this morning, and Trevor Phillips posed him a very sobering question. Mr Lewis, I wouldn't

1:02.0

normally do something like this, but I want to put a private personal question, I guess,

1:06.8

in a way to you. Over the past two days, every cabinet minister, including you, has come out to

1:12.1

essentially defend the Prime Minister and Matt Hancock. The pictures that we saw were of an encounter

1:17.8

on May the 6th. On May the 11th, my family buried my daughter, who had died not of COVID, but during

1:25.0

the lockdown. 300 of our family and friends turned up online,

1:29.3

but most of them were not allowed to be at the graveside,

1:32.3

even though it was in the open air,

1:35.3

because of the rule of 30, because of the instruction by Mr. Hancock.

1:41.3

Now, the next time one of you tells me what to do in my private life, explain to me

1:47.5

why I shouldn't just tell you where to get off.

1:51.8

Well, I absolutely accept and understand the frustration, even the anger that people have,

1:56.5

having been through the situations they've been through, look, as you say to it, people across

2:00.4

the country,

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