Should politicians stick out a scandal?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Canacor Genuity Wealth Management, experienced wealth planners |
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| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the special Saturday edition focusing on |
| 0:22.0 | political resignations and the ongoing class about regime Sahawi. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm joined by Fraser Nelson, the publisher of the Spectator, |
| 0:29.0 | and Mark Oton, the former Liberal Democrat MP, who himself was involved in a resignation matter |
| 0:33.0 | 10 years ago. Fraser, first of all, tell us where we are with an adeem Sahawi story. |
| 0:37.0 | Well, right now, we had Richie Sennacher, first of all, said that there were no more |
| 0:41.0 | questions to answer in an adeem Sahawi story, when he appointed him chairman of the party. |
| 0:45.0 | But now, says there are questions to answer to an investigation. |
| 0:49.0 | It transpires that somebody didn't tell Richie Sennacher the whole story about an adeem Sahawi. |
| 0:55.0 | And that number 10 was saying basically this was the officials, they gave him the clean |
| 0:59.0 | wealth health. And that he, Richie Sennacher didn't know, that his chairman had had to pay a fine to |
| 1:05.0 | customs and excites. Now, the investigation into that, we heard yesterday from the officials |
| 1:09.0 | that you only pay a fine if you've done something wrong. |
| 1:11.0 | A careless mistake, we're told, wouldn't be enough to necessitate a penalty. |
| 1:15.0 | So, Richie Sennacher is, is projecting his chairman to a short inquiry about what happened, |
| 1:21.0 | and we'll make a decision after that. |
| 1:23.0 | Now, the mute music doesn't look very good for him. I don't know very many members of the |
| 1:27.0 | government who don't think he's going to be fired at the end of this. |
| 1:31.0 | But while the investigation drags on, you will pretty much every day see an iteration of a story in |
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