Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 28/04/2024
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 28 April 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The prime minister is in a frustrated mood as he bats away questions about the general election. Dan Poulter has defected to Labour, and Wes Streeting says more disaffected Tories are welcome. Humza Yousaf is walking a tightrope as he faces two votes of no-confidence. And Streeting defends Labour's decision to keep the pensions triple lock.
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup. |
| 0:18.0 | The Tories are expected to lose more seats in the upcoming local elections on May the 4th. Trevor Phillips interviewed the Prime Minister on Sky New York. the You are going to get a drubbing at the local elections. How many seats do you have to lose before you accept that the people have lost confidence in you and it's time either for you to stand down or to call in a general election? Well look when it comes call a general election? |
| 0:43.0 | Well look when it comes to a general election I've been very clear about that multiple times I said at the beginning of this year. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm going to ask you about that. |
| 0:50.0 | Well let me ask you about it you said second half of this year |
| 0:53.7 | second half of this year could be July and again I'm not going to say anything more |
| 0:58.0 | than I've already that I've already said I've been very clear about that we have |
| 1:01.9 | July again you're going to translate you're ruling this in you're ruling that in I remember when I was |
| 1:06.2 | I just need to know where to make my holiday. July is possible. |
| 1:09.1 | Well I think Trevor it's more important than your holiday or anyone's holiday. I've got a job to do which is |
| 1:13.8 | delivering for the country and as we've been talking about as we've been talking |
| 1:18.0 | about we are delivering when it comes to tackling illegal migration we're delivering |
| 1:21.9 | when it comes to investing in our defense. |
| 1:24.1 | No, I'm not I'm not going to do that and you're going to try and do this and I remember you |
| 1:28.5 | did the same thing when I was Chancellor before budgets you can't put this tax |
| 1:32.0 | to me in this tax car and say you're |
| 1:33.9 | ruling this out and I'll give you the same answer every time. |
| 1:38.0 | Now on this though we've talked about it. |
| 1:40.5 | You're not going to rule out July. |
| 1:42.0 | You're going to try and draw whatever |
| 1:43.3 | conclusion you want from I say I'm going to always say the same thing. You should just |
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