Hello and welcome to coffee house shots suspect haters daily politics podcast. I'm Katie Bulls

and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James for Sife. At 6.30 p.m. tonight the powers and

answer her majesty Queen Elizabeth II had passed away. age 96 this brings an end to

a 70 year reign. James what comes next? I think the most remarkable thing and the

greatest testament to her reign is how uncontroachial what comes next is. What comes next is

her son succeeds her as monarch and I think it is a remarkable achievement in this. She's

the longest-raining monarch in British history and there has been so much political, social

and technological change during her reign but despite all of that the idea of monarchy is

so uncontroversial but there isn't even a moment of hesitation before Liz Truss announced

from Dining Street that we must all support King Charles III and I think what that tells

us is the consumer skill with which she has performed the role of constitutional monarch.

She died today with the free of us all I think fairly well informed people having no

idea what she thought about almost any political issue. You know if I have been two moments

I think when we've had a glimpse of what her private opinions were. One was a sunny

time story about her frustration with Margaret Patrick of his actions on Southrop and

the other was so informed speculation about her Euro skepticism but I think you have

to remember that what made those so note worthy is how rare they were. She kept her opinions

to herself and you said in the intro Katie rightly but it's a daily politics podcast.

In some ways the Queen's immense achievement was that she always rose above politics and

you know I think the other absolutely remarkable thing is she has had the longest reign in British

history and you know as we sit here tonight you can point to that have been a misstep description

on you know and Anna's Heroublis but you compare those to Queen Victoria the previous

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