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Coffee House Shots

Sunak gets tetchy during Rwanda and Israel grilling

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak appeared in front of the Liaison Committee this afternoon. In an interview with The Spectator last week, the PM said that he was enjoying the job. So why did he seem so agitated at the grilling today?

Max Jeffery speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Heale.

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Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

0:24.8

I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Heel.

0:29.5

Rishi Sunak was in front of the liaison committee this afternoon.

0:33.2

Isabelle how did it go for the Prime Minister?

0:35.6

Well he said in his interview with Katie in the Christmas issue of the

0:39.8

spectator which is out now that he doesn't recognize a description of himself as

0:45.6

as Techie, but he was, I'm afraid to say Techie at today's committee session and he, I'd say he was nonpartisan in his tetchiness in that he got

0:57.9

crossed with Alicia Kearns who's the the conservative chair of the committee.

1:05.0

Well, is getting cross with Sarah Champion,

1:07.0

who is the Labour chair of the International Development Committee. And I think part of his

1:14.9

touchiness is a sort of an irritation with those who don't immediately appear to understand his point of view,

1:25.0

which to a certain extent is, I wouldn't say that's not the role of a select committee

1:32.0

chair, but I think when you're having these

1:33.2

questioning sessions to probe somebody's point of view to make sure that they are actually

1:40.1

that they've actually based it on a firm foundation is quite important and he seems to get particularly annoyed when people do that.

1:48.0

So there was an exchange between him and Sarah Champion on international aid, which was largely

1:58.4

characterized by Sarah Champion being disappointed that he had dropped the 0.7% spending commitment and soon arguing that it was the right decision.

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