SNP: do you attract more flies with honey or vinegar?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Also on the podcast, Rishi Sunak will this evening travel to meet with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. What will they be discussing? Why is it that our prime ministers treat trips north of the border like foreign visits?
Cindy Yu speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.
Produced by Cindy Yu and Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Canacore Genuity Wealth Management. |
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| 0:17.1 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, |
| 0:18.6 | the spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Cindy Yu, and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Katie Bors. |
| 0:24.4 | Today there have been reports of how the Conservative Party |
| 0:27.0 | wants to reform welfare benefits in this country. |
| 0:30.0 | Fraser, tell us about what the DWP Secretary of State |
| 0:32.8 | Mastery is thinking. |
| 0:34.6 | Well, what he seems to be thinking is, |
| 0:36.1 | especially similar to what John Ashworth, |
| 0:38.2 | his opposite number in the Labour Party, |
| 0:39.7 | was saying a couple of days ago, |
| 0:41.9 | Ashworth gave a speech to the Centre for Social Justice, |
| 0:44.6 | which struck me as quite a moment. |
| 0:46.7 | I've been involved with the CSJ for quite a while, |
| 0:49.8 | and it was set up by Ian Duggan-Smith, |
| 0:52.0 | and yet here we had a Labour front bencher |
| 0:54.9 | talking about how welfare is a terrible waste of humanity, |
| 0:59.0 | not just a waste of money, |
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