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Coffee House Shots

Was the government right to delay 'freedom day'?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It's our first 'freedom' weekend, but it was only a few weeks ago when our own Fraser Nelson and Kate Andrews clashed heads over the most sensible way to open up. Kate thought we should stick to the 21st of June, Fraser argued that the later opening date made sense. Now it's time to see who was right? This cage match was refereed by Katy Balls.

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0:00.0

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0:20.9

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0:27.4

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

0:35.8

I'm Katie Balls, and I'm joined by Kate Andrews and Fraser

0:39.2

Nelson and we're back to our favourite topic on the podcast which was who was right about the

0:43.3

June 21st delay when it comes to that roadmap. Was it Kate or was it Fraser? We've had a few

0:49.7

discussions on this Kate but to begin we celebrated so-called Freedom Day on Monday by going to the

0:56.3

blue ball across the road. And a lovely man, a listener on his podcast came over and he said

1:02.0

something to you, so why don't you share that? Yes, a delightful man, an avid listener of

1:07.4

Coffee House shots, came over to say hello hello which was legal on monday that was

1:11.5

delightful that he could come up and you know not be socially distanced and katie can vouch for

1:16.1

this one of the first things he said was kate i thought it was outrageous that your boss

1:21.5

fraser nelson went on coffee house shots and said basically that he was proven right about the delay and he did so when

1:30.0

you were out of the office to not give you a chance to reply and I said yes it is absolutely outrageous

1:36.0

I have messaged him about this and I'm delighted to hear that our listeners are just as frustrated

1:40.4

with his actions as I was and you also did want to write reply, but we decided not to have that as a solace,

1:46.6

instead bring the two of you together.

1:48.1

So you could just talk about one more time.

1:49.8

And let's be honest here.

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