Was Starmer right to praise Thatcher?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Also on the podcast, Rishi Sunak has started the week with the news that he has recorded his lowest rating ever in the latest ConservativeHome league table, racking up a dire -25.4 among card-carrying Conservatives. Can he turn it around?
James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:21.2 | I'm James Yiel and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:24.8 | Now Katie, the big row dominating labor at the moment |
| 0:27.0 | is his praise for Margaret Thatcher from Kerestama |
| 0:29.6 | in an op-ed for Sunday Telegraph. |
| 0:31.7 | Talk us through this row. So this is something Kyiostama has done a few |
| 0:35.6 | times which is on a weekend when his team want to make news. They write op-ed for the telegraph. Obviouslyirstammer writes every word himself and it |
| 0:46.0 | plays to the right it pitches to the right audience and it's ultimately Kirstammer |
| 0:51.1 | showing some leg and and everyone says, |
| 0:52.6 | Oh, look, Labor, parking their tanks and Tory lawns. |
| 0:57.2 | What's happened this weekend is he's decided to use that opportunity |
| 1:00.9 | to praise Thatcher. So he said in his Sunday Telegraph. use that |
| 1:03.0 | he said in his Sunday telegraph article that every moment of meaningful |
| 1:07.5 | change in modern British poets begins a realization that politics |
| 1:10.6 | must act in service of the British people rather than dictating to them. |
| 1:15.3 | Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism. |
| 1:21.6 | Now he went on to then also to talk about Tony Blair being such |
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