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The Week in 60 Minutes: Starmer's purge and petrol crisis

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🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Kate Andrews is joined by writer and political activist Paul Embery; journalist Ayesha Hazarika; Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith; security expert Elisabeth Braw, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Spectator contributor Matthew Lynn; and a team of Spectator journalists.

We discuss Labour's weekend in Brighton and whether Keir Starmer is taking the party in the right direction, how Britain can be better prepared for crises and why Ursula von der Leyen was the real winner of the recent German elections.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV and broadcast on Thursday, September 30th.

0:18.0

I'm Kate Andrews, the Spectator's economics editor, and your host this week.

0:22.4

On this week's show, Labor had their annual conference in Brighton. Keistama was keen to prove that

0:27.7

the days of Corbin are long gone, but was overshadowed by infighting over party rules,

0:32.6

the resignation of a shadow cabinet member, and a debate over whether only women have cervixes.

0:37.9

Katie Balls will brief us on what happened, and if Paul Embry and Aisha Hazarica

0:41.7

will discuss whether labor is headed in the right, an electable direction.

0:46.2

Most Brits, strangely enough, didn't spend their week obsessing over the Labor Party's

0:50.6

rules for electing future leaders.

0:52.8

A lack of lorry drivers has led to a fuel

0:54.8

shortage and people have been rushing to petrol stations to fill up their cars. It comes a few

0:59.6

weeks after pictures of empty supermarket shelves were plastered on front pages. Are we wrong to rely on

1:05.2

precarious, if efficient, delivery methods? And as a country, are we badly prepared for a crisis?

1:12.2

I'll speak to Elizabeth Bra, a security expert who sits on the National Preparedness Committee. The government doesn't seem

1:18.2

to have many answers to the fuel crisis. Tories head to Manchester at the weekend for party

1:22.5

conference, so is this a chance for Boris to reset the agenda? I'll speak to James Forsyth and Tory backbencher and former cabinet minister

1:30.3

and Duncan Smith will join us too.

1:33.3

Germany went to the polls last week to pick Angela Merkel's successor.

1:37.3

The results were inconclusive and months of painstaking negotiations

1:41.3

between different parties are now likely to follow.

1:43.3

To tell us what happened and to explain why he thinks it leaves Ursula von der Leyen,

1:48.0

president of the EU Commission, as the world's most powerful German politician,

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