Rishi Sunak admits to failing on NHS waitlists

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

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Rishi Sunak is in Belfast to mark the return of Stormont after a two-year deadlock. With Sinn Fein now the leading party, can the government pitch this as a win? Also on the podcast, the Prime Minister admitted he's failed to meet the NHS waitlist targets from his five pledges last year. James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson.

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0:19.2	Hello and welcome to coffee house shots.
0:20.8	I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and
0:23.2	Fraser Nelson. Now Katie this morning the Prime Minister is in Northern Ireland
0:26.5	to meet the first Sinn Féin First Minister. Talk us through what's happening there.
0:30.1	Well of course Stormont is back and if we go to the Windsor framework last spring
0:35.9	this has been something Ritchie's has been trying to get to for a quite a long time
0:40.5	it didn't work the first time but these talks as we spoke about last
0:44.6	week have led to success. There are some moments last week where you just need to
0:49.2	wait to see you know once the deal is written do does Jeffrey Donaldson the leader of the
0:54.6	DP face an internal backlash it has not been sizable and then do you get to a point
1:00.0	where Tory Brexiters might oppose it now it pretty much went off about any problems, which is quite
1:06.1	rare if you think about the history of this. And now you have a situation where I think it is
1:10.9	being described in some parts as a victory lap by Ritchie Scenic.
1:14.2	Of course you do have now the most senior figure in Stormont being a member of Sinn Féin and I think
1:20.0	that means that some are looking on at this in the return of Storm one and worrying about what it means for the potential reunification of Ireland in the future.
1:28.0	But I think from the immediate political perspective, this is seen in number 10 as an achievement they are not
1:35.0	going to get into the politics of Sinn Féin versus the DEP and you have finally
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