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Hello and welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm Moss-Edonson and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and John Rental, the chief

political commentator at the Independent.

So should Kiastama go on holiday whilst the country is still grappling with violent disorder?

In a Hugo poll conducted last week 71% of those surveyed said that he shouldn't. The PM is meant to be heading off on a summer break on Monday,

but that is looking increasingly unlikely.

We still haven't got the final word from number 10, but we thought it was a good opportunity to take a look at the

politics of prime ministerial holidays. So Katie just to start us off can you give us a

little update on how number 10 have managed this story over the course of this week.

Yeah so at the time of recording we still don't know for sure if Kirstama was going on a

holiday or not but as you point to I think it is politically problematic if he chooses to there are some

saying oh let him you know get on the Sun lounger and whatever he might be going

it's often safer politically to also do a UK holiday. Do we know where he's going?

Or for security reasons, they're never going to say these things in advance.

And they also aren't going to say the Prime Minister's

a travel plan really until they have already happened.

So at some point in a night

will come. I think that you know there's a long history of the pitfalls of going

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