Kemi is on a roll
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Kemi Badenoch’s good form continues at Prime Minister’s Questions. The Tory leader was once more visibly enjoying herself today as she feasted on Labour misfortune, and she did a good job in covering the breadth of problems in the government. She used her six questions to ask about different departments and how they were faring: an approach that can often risk diluting the overall attack. But today, Badenoch had an overarching theme to those questions, which was that the Prime Minister and his colleagues are failing to meet their own promises.
To discuss, James Heale is joined by Tim Shipman and Michael Simmons.
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| 0:28.1 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Heel. I'm joined today by Tim Schittman and Michael |
| 0:32.1 | Simmons. Now it's Wednesday and it's been the penultimate PMQ's session of the year. Tim, |
| 0:36.7 | what do we learn from today? What we learn is that Kimmy Badnock is still quite good at PMQ's session of the year. Tim, what do we learn from today? |
| 0:37.6 | What we learn is that Kemmy Badnock is still quite good at PMQs. |
| 0:40.7 | It's not a flash in the pan. |
| 0:42.7 | And as Tory MPs prepare to go off for Christmas, |
| 0:45.1 | I think they'll be relatively happy. |
| 0:47.4 | She, instead of hammering six questions on one subject today, |
| 0:51.8 | she basically took as her subject all the ministers who are keen to |
| 0:56.2 | see the back of Kirstama and are maneuvering for position for what she called the caretaker |
| 1:01.3 | prime minister's position, quoting one of our journalistic colleagues columns from the weekend. |
| 1:07.0 | And she basically went through each of the sort of senior ministers in the government and said, |
| 1:12.1 | well, this person promised this, and they've delivered what, Mr. Keir Stama? |
| 1:15.6 | So we started with energy and how energy prices have risen under Ed Miliband. |
| 1:21.3 | We had questions about how many teachers there were under Bridget Philipson's tenure as Education Secretary. |
| 1:27.5 | And Stama kept going, well, of course, we inherited a complete mess from the Conservatives. how many teachers there were under Bridget Phillipson's tenure as Education Secretary. |
| 1:32.0 | And Stama kept going, well, of course, we inherited a complete mess from the Conservatives. |
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