Michael Gove is the new editor of The Spectator

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

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Summary

We've had quite the day at 22 Old Queen Street. All Westminster politics seem small in comparison to the news that Fraser Nelson will step down as editor of this publication, with Michael Gove taking charge on October 8th. Hear Fraser's thoughts on what this new chapter will mean for The Spectator, on the podcast.

Elsewhere, Labour conference has wrapped up in Liverpool and this has coincided with an update on growth from the OECD. Having predicted in May that the economy would grow by 0.4 per cent this year, the policy organisation now expects the economy to grow by 1.1 per cent. This lifts the UK from the bottom of the pack of advanced economies and ties it in second place – alongside France and Canada – for the fastest growth in the G7. Britain is growing. Can Rachel Reeves start spending?

Katy Balls speaks to Fraser Nelson and Kate Andrews.

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0:00.0	The Spectator magazine is home to wonderful writing, insightful analysis and unrivaled books and art reviews.
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0:20.0	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots of Spectators Daily Politics
0:26.4	Podcast I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Kate Andrews and Fraser Nelson.
0:30.8	We're having a bit of a day at 22 Old Queen Street. Fraser, have you
0:36.6	got any news you'd like to share our listeners? They might have read it on websites
0:39.3	already. Yeah, that I'm soon to enter the Valhalla of ex-spectator editors. My successor is going to be none other
0:46.8	than Michael Gove. So that does mean, I think, given you have another week, we have at least
0:51.2	probably seven coffee house shots out of you and you are associate editor,
0:54.8	so you might try and drag you back.
0:57.0	Would you come back as an independent guest?
0:59.8	Michael has asked me to stay on as an associate editor and I'm not leaving. I'm staying in the spectator family.
1:06.0	I've had 15 years as editor and they've been amazing years. A job like this is something you give your whole life heart and soul and perhaps there's only so much of your life you should do a job like this for.
1:19.0	And when there's never an easy time to leave, there is sometimes an obvious time and the way I saw this with
1:25.6	support marshals a hundred million pound bid for the spectator but not only that but
1:29.5	what he's in the process of building right now he is about to put in some serious investments
1:34.0	to his spectator, recognizing its success and its potential. He
1:38.1	sees us something a fraction of what it could be and I think that everybody in the spectator, the readers, the colleagues,
1:47.1	they all deserve somebody who can be here for the next five years.
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