Rishi Sunak's conference speech gamble
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Fraser Nelson speaks to Katy Balls, Isabel Hardman, Kate Andrews and John Connolly.
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| 0:09.9 | such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage |
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| 0:26.2 | Welcome to Coffee Health Shots |
| 0:28.2 | Daily Politics Podcast |
| 0:30.1 | Richie Sonark has just given his speech in Manchester |
| 0:33.0 | I'm for his Nelson and I'm joined by pretty much all my spectator colleagues |
| 0:36.4 | which has watched it in the hotel here at Soap Hall |
| 0:39.1 | due to the background noise. |
| 0:40.6 | Now the upshot seems to be pretty simple. |
| 0:42.8 | Three main puzzles. One is that he's now a long list of |
| 0:46.8 | infrastructure projects he's going to do instead of a 36 billion |
| 0:49.6 | he's not spending on completing HS2 as originally envisaged. |
| 0:54.0 | Second he's going to have a lifetime ban on smoking for anybody |
| 0:57.7 | pretty much born after 2009 |
| 1:00.2 | and third he's proposing to abolish a levels and replace them with an |
| 1:03.7 | advance to British standard qualification. |
| 1:06.8 | So Katie overall do you think he succeeded in his objectives of |
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