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Should Rishi be worried about Covid inquiry messages?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It was prime ministers questions today and while Rishi Sunak is away in the US Oliver Dowden stood in. The Covid inquiry was a hot topic of debate. Rishi Sunak says he is not worried about being embarrassed by messages seen by the inquiry, but is he right to be so calm? 

Also on the podcast, the OECD has forecasted that the UK will narrowly avoid recession. But with growth at only 0.3 per cent for 2023, can we consider this a good outcome?

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Kate Andrews. 

Produced by Oscar Edmondson. 

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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots. I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by Kate Andrews

0:34.2

and KT Bulls. Now, it's promised his questions today, but for the second time,

0:38.2

Riches Net was away and so it was Oliver Dowler who stepped up to face off against Andrew Rainer

0:42.1

and alongside both their portfolios is the role of cabinet office and

0:45.6

shadowing that responsibility. So obviously, given the cabinet office has been the news,

0:49.2

what came up covered in quarry. Kate, you tell us about the exchange today.

0:53.4

I think what was interesting is that it didn't massively move the position on. We had Oliver

0:58.2

Dowder and I think giving a bit more detail on the rationale behind the government's decision

1:03.8

to launch to disagree with you against its own inquiry, which I think almost universally has

1:10.8

been criticised. There have been a few Tory MPs defending the government, but there's also been

1:15.3

plenty. It was saying it makes the government look secretive. It's a bad look. Look at what

1:19.6

families of the bereaved are saying and in response to this. And given there's some skepticism,

1:25.9

the judicial review is going to be successful. Is it really worth the fight? I don't think that's

1:30.8

a sense as both in the Tory party and parts of government. But Oliver Dowder was making the

1:36.4

lonely view, perhaps. The idea of giving all messages over here on the witnesses called,

1:41.3

including those that are irrelevant or not directly related to COVID, would mean that all

1:47.6

of a sudden you're handing over quite intimate messages about family matters, personal matters,

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