Labour goes nuclear while Reform turns to coal
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Reeves has pledged a ‘new era of nuclear power’ as the government confirms a £14.2 billion investment in the Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk. This comes on the eve of Labour’s spending review, with the government expected to highlight spending pledges designed to give a positive impression of Labour’s handling of the economy. However, as Michael Simmons tells James Heale and Lucy Dunn, there are signs that the government’s National Insurance hike is starting to bite.
Plus – Nigel Farage has made two announcements in as many days. This morning, he unveiled Reform’s new chairman, former MEP Dr David Bull, taking over from the recently returned Zia Yusuf. And yesterday he was in Port Talbot, where he pledged to reopen their steel works and even explore reopening coal mines, with one eye on next year’s Welsh elections.
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| 0:47.3 | James Heel and Michael Simmons. This morning Reform UK has held another press conference in which |
| 0:53.2 | the party announced its new chair after a rather |
| 0:57.1 | tumultuous end of the week last week, where Zia Yusuf first of all quit the party before coming |
| 1:02.2 | back 40 hours later. James, you were at that press conference today. So can you tell us, first |
| 1:06.6 | of all, who the new chair is and how it all went down? Well, like most things of Reform UK, |
| 1:11.7 | it never goes down too smoothly. This was Dr David Bull, Talk TV Personality, whose show I was on Saturday, |
| 1:18.9 | at which point he already knew of the new chairman, was asking me about my thoughts on who the new chairman |
| 1:23.3 | would be sort of the surrealist element to reform we've come to expect. And also, of course, the fact that they're very dependent on the world of broadcasting. |
| 1:30.2 | It's striking to me as I write in this week's cover, just how many people from the world |
| 1:33.7 | of broadcasting are linked to one of Farage's different parties or outfits over the years. |
| 1:37.9 | But yes, David Bull, the name was leaked to Andrew Pierce in the Daily Mail this morning, |
| 1:42.0 | that he was going to be the new chairman, and he was announced today. |
| 1:45.1 | And really, I think today's press conference tried to do a couple of things, |
| 1:48.1 | one of which was ensuring an orderly transfer of power, if you will, from Zia Yusuf to David Bull. |
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