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Coffee House Shots

Isabel Hardman’s Sunday Roundup – 29/01/23

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Isabel Hardman hosts the highlights from Sunday morning’s political shows. Featured today are interviews with Michael Gove, Bridget Phillipson, Mary Bousted and Michel Barnier.

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0:18.0

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shops, the Spectators' Daily Politics podcast.

0:23.0

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

0:27.0

The news of the day is Rishi Sunak's dismissal of the embattled Conservative Party chairman, the Deem Zahawi.

0:33.0

An investigation by the Prime Minister's ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, found he had reached the ministerial code in relation to his tax affairs.

0:42.0

Laura Cunesburg asked the leveling up Secretary Michael Gove about his leader's judgment.

0:47.0

Well, there are always people who will fall short whether it's in politics or in other parts of public life or in professional life or in any area.

0:56.0

Because someone commits a lapse or a sin, that shouldn't be automatically taken as an opportunity to dam an entire organisation or a way of working.

1:07.0

But he's here for the perception it gives of your party.

1:11.0

And indeed of this Prime Minister, because he's not the only minister there have been problems with.

1:15.0

There's an investigation into Dominic Rab, very serious minister over bullying claims.

1:20.0

Rishi Sunak already had to get rid of Gavin Williamson for sending pretty unpleasant texts to one of his colleagues.

1:26.0

This isn't the only problem.

1:29.0

And your leader came to power promising the country something different, saying to people,

1:35.0

oh, I'm going to draw a line over all these things swirling around over sleeves and the kind of disregard for the rules that many people felt.

1:42.0

The former administration did far too often.

1:46.0

Well, again, it's a serious charge and it's one that I take profoundly seriously.

1:50.0

So the first thing is, Rishi's whole way of operating.

1:53.0

The prime minister's whole way of operating is driven by a sense of duty and a sense of profound moral seriousness.

2:03.0

That means that when an allegation is put against someone, he doesn't immediately think, right, OK, I mean political difficulty.

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