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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hello, welcome to Coffey House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by

Katie Wals and Freight Nelson. Now this morning Katie after five days of

briefing we finally get the equivalent of Kirstammer's equivalent to the

Gettysburg address. He gave us a big speech at the

Downing Street Garden. Tell us more about it.

Yeah, so heavily trailed as you say. It is still a week until Parliament returns that happens next week but it certainly seems to me at

least as though they have been punished by slightly not putting enough out in recent

weeks you've had a series of quite negative labor stories where it is

accusations of cronyism, unease over the winter fuel payments, or just heat on

public sector pay of Asliff and they're all stories that would get some

attention is the reason they're page one on page two because the government is not

saying much else there's definitely a concern among some in the

Labour Party that slang will focus and I think today giving that speech is

really an attempt to seize back the agenda, set the narrative ahead of the

return to Parliament and ahead of a few

difficult months in terms of decisions. Now there have been various trails. One

was that Kistama would declare that the end of performance politics.

Certainly, I found some light humour in Kistammer

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