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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots spectators' daily politics podcast. I'm Katie Balls. I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Versafe.

So we have the news today that the UK government has imposed sanctions on hundreds of Russian parliamentarians as part of its response to the war in Ukraine. James,

what does this mean in practice? Is it something which they're going to really feel the pain of

over there in Moscow? So I think this is something that the UK government had wanted to do for

a while, but as with the sanctions on the individual oligarchs yesterday, until they could change

the law, they were restricted in

their ability to do that i think this is more symbolic than anything else but i think there is also

an element of trying to drive wedges i think between Putin and some of the other people within

the russian power structures here you know you voted for the, therefore you won't be able to come and holiday in

the south of France or in the UK's case, you know, come shopping in London or send you,

come and visit your kids if they're at school or university over here, all of those kind of

things.

So I think it might have some effect at the margin, but this is not on the same level of anywhere near the same

level of significance as, for example, kind of cutting Russian banks off from Swift and the

like. Fraser, the government's under pressure to expand sanctions to relatives, stepchildren

of senior Moscow politicians. Do you think that would be effective? What is the ultimate aim the UK

government's trying to have here? I guess it's aiming to address people who say that it's been

getting rich and Russian money for a while. Obviously, it wants to get tougher. I have to admit

that I feel rather uncomfortable with imposing sanctions on people who haven't broken any

laws. I do understand that the government says these guys are close to Putin, but it hasn't

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