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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Megan McElroy, and I'm joined today by Isabel Hardman, our assistant editor, and Noah Hoffman, our political correspondent. We've got a lot to get through today, but let's start where we always do on Wednesdays, and that's with PMQs. Isabel, it seems like we're back to talking about oil and gas. What's going on? Yeah, I mean, it was kind of weird because Kirstama is a lame duck,

and he was actually facing questions about decisions he'd made,

which almost suggested that he's, I don't know,

he's hobbling a bit less on his duck feet than we thought.

But it was about, it started off with the U-turn that he announced on road tax

for hauliers and continuing the fuel duty freeze. You can't, you can't ever put fuel duty up

if you're a Westminster politician and you just have to decide when you're going to announce that

you're not putting it up. And he chose the start of this PMQ's to do that.

So, Kemi Baderk described that as a U-turn and then moved on to this announcement that

I think we're now reasonably confident has largely been botched in terms of the order

in which sanctions have been announced, but it was on sanctions against Russia around oil.

And it was snuck out last night, as Kemi Badenock said,

and suggested that the government was basically lifting these sanctions entirely,

in part to enable the cost of jet fuel to stay lower so that Brits could go on holiday.

So the whole sequencing of it was terrible and deeply upset the Ukrainians.

And Kemi Baganot went for Kirstama on that.

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