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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm James Hill and

I'm joined today by James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson. This afternoon, premises

effects to answer an urgent question on the changes announced this morning by her new chance

to the exchequer Jeremy Hunt. But instead, Penny Morden was sent along to fill in for the Prime

Minister. James, talk us through that statement. Well, it was quite remarkable. So,

Kirsta Arman put down an urgent question and the speaker accepted it. Now, I think that the safest

place for a minister to be in Christ is the dispatch box for House of Commons. You there at

least have some more to come of control over the situation. It can be your own words that shape

things. Liz Truss decided not to go. Penny Morden turned up instead. And all the way through,

Penny Morden kept saying that there was a genuine reason that the Prime Minister couldn't be there,

and the member of the eight-one boy said the Prime Minister is not hiding under a desk.

And by then, you were thinking of, you know, I was left with the impression that maybe there

was some security crisis or some thing that was having to be dealt with so urgently, she couldn't

be there. We're now receiving briefings that she was just meeting Graham Brady with chairman

22 committee in what was apparently a pre-plan meeting and seems a very, very odd choice.

We've had a very bizarre situation where Jeremy Han stood up and essentially repeated the

statement here given to camera at 11 a.m. to House of Commons, essentially kind of junking

the vast majority of the mini-budget. As Liz Truss who had so vocally cheered on the mini-budget

from a from a sedentary positions quasi-coating was delivering it, sat there on the front bench.

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