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Coffee House Shots

What's the fallout from the local election?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman about the fallout from the local elections, some of the arrests made during the Coronation and Rishi Sunak’s plans to give powers to the pharmacies. 

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0:00.0

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0:18.9

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots.

0:20.7

I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Isabelle Harbourn.

0:24.2

Now it's five days or so since the local election results came in.

0:27.2

Katie, what's really the sentence in Westminster today

0:29.5

now that we've all come back?

0:31.5

As predicted, King Charles has helped Rishi Senak out,

0:35.6

not for the first time in his reign.

0:38.1

At the first, of course, the Windsor Framework.

0:40.6

You have a situation where it was pretty dismal results for the Tories.

0:44.0

In fact, it was over 1,000 Councillors that they lost.

0:48.0

This was a figure that had been bandied

0:50.0

right by the party chairman Greg Hans as part of a damage limitation

0:57.0

so they could spend anything below that as a great success

0:59.8

and beating expectations.

1:01.4

And then they went over it.

1:02.8

So I do think it was worse than lots of people expected.

1:05.8

And it also brought home the fact that the polls are real.

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