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Labour try to silence ‘austerity-lite’ accusations

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

James Nation, formerly a special adviser to Rishi Sunak and now an MD at Forefront Advisers, joins the Spectator’s deputy political editor James Heale and economics editor Michael Simmons, to talk through the latest on the government’s spending review, which is due to be announced on Wednesday. The last holdout appears to be Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, pushing for more police funding. But, against a tough fiscal landscape, what can we expect? And how much does it matter with the wider public? Plus – former chairman Zia Yusuf returned to Reform just two days after resigning, what’s going on?


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Hello and welcome to Coffeyer Shots. I'm Michael Simmons and today I'm joined by James Heel, our deputy political editor and another James, James Nation, who we've got on today

0:53.6

for his expertise from when he worked in the Treasury under the previous government.

0:58.5

James Heel, if we can start with you, a question about Zia Yusuf.

1:02.2

I think we all got very excitable in the newsroom on Thursday night when it was announced that Zia Yusuf had quit his role as chairman of reform, but over the

1:12.4

weekend it seems he's back. What on earth's going on? Yeah, it seems unresigning is the new thing.

1:17.3

I mean, look, as I sort of wrote on Thursday, I think Zay Yusuf had had a lot of pressure online,

1:22.8

looking at X, etc., in terms of both sort of the abuse he was getting on there and was a bit

1:27.8

irritated with terms of what was happening in Sarah Pochin's questioner, promised

1:31.8

questions. He was making the point that, you know, PMQ's, you probably shouldn't bring up

1:36.6

a policy that isn't your policy to ban it. And I think it was more an internal communications

1:41.1

issue. So he's gone away, sort of about it for 48 hours and then had a call with Nigel Farage around Friday lunchtime. Then Saturday morning,

1:48.3

there was another call, and then it was agreed to set up a Sunday Times interview in which

1:51.5

Fras and Yusuf then appear together and saying how everything, wonderful, everything was.

1:56.0

And so now there's going to be an internal Reform UK reshuffle, which means this can be a new chairman announced tomorrow

2:01.0

on Tuesday. So, yeah, Yusuf is going to be taking up some different functions, which effectively

2:05.5

who is doing anyway, so focusing on his role in local government in terms of the Doge functions,

2:10.5

looking at some of the details going on to the bonnet there, and also policy formation. I think that,

2:15.4

you know, the upshot of this is that he clearly is going to be

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