Was Boris’s Ukraine/Brexit comparison a mistake?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
'I think it was up there with the Jimmy Saville joke which he made about Keir Stamer in things which should not have been said.' - Fraser Nelson.
Also on the podcast, will Rishi Sunak be forced to u-turn on his commitment to low taxes? In the week of the Chancellor's Spring Statement, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine means that the goalposts have moved.
All to be discussed as Isabel Hardman is joined by Katy Balls, James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson.
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| 0:16.6 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Ms Baharbon and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson, James Versailles and Katie Bulls. |
| 0:26.2 | Well, it's the Spring Statement this week with Chancellor Rishu Sunak |
| 0:30.0 | under increasing pressure from different parts of his party to do something to help Brits |
| 0:35.2 | struggling with the cost of living crisis. Katie, what have we been hearing from the Chancellor |
| 0:40.8 | and his allies over the weekend? So I think when the Spring Statement's first |
| 0:46.0 | envisioned by the Chancellor, the idea was that it would be a mini-up day, it would be very |
| 0:51.1 | light on policies or new announcements and instead it would be largely focused on economic |
| 0:55.4 | forecasts, perhaps with a sketch of Rishu Sunak's broader ambitions on taxation. What has changed |
| 1:02.1 | is that the Chancellor has found he's gone from one crisis in the form of the pandemic to another |
| 1:06.3 | in the form of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which is clearly exacerbating the cost of living |
| 1:11.1 | crisis and therefore the Chancellor's under a lot of pressure to announce some measures on Wednesday |
| 1:16.3 | when he gets up in the dispatch box, which are going to help with that and there's clearly |
| 1:20.4 | labour on one hand calling for lots of things but I think as ever, I think where the pressure |
| 1:24.9 | is the most relevant to the chance there is on his own side, you have had 50 MPs last week |
| 1:30.3 | signed a letter calling for a cut and fuel duty, that is something that they're a very strong |
| 1:34.5 | hints is going to happen, obviously the exact details are not currently known and then also |
| 1:41.0 | I think the other thing to look out for is clearly on national insurance. The national insurance |
| 1:45.3 | is very unpopular with the Tory party. Labour also called for it to go. Given how much |
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