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Coffee House Shots

Who’s to blame for the concrete crisis?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The government is struggling to change the story. After Gillian Keegan yesterday said, about the concrete crisis, that ‘everyone else has sat on their arse and done nothing’, the story has continued to dominate the news. How can the government recover? Who should take the blame?

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Conservative Home’s Paul Goodman.

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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by the

0:26.0

Spectators Katie Balls and Conservative Home Editor Paul Goodman.

0:29.6

Now Katie, I think the story that's still rumbling on from yesterday is not the labour reshuffle

0:33.4

but actually those comments by Julian Keegan. Let's hear them once again.

0:36.5

Does anyone ever say, you know what, you've done a f***ing good job because everyone else has sat

0:40.8

on their f*** and done nothing. No signs of that, no?

0:45.0

Where are we on day two about our parlance returned, this route that's going on about buildings

0:49.8

and probably concrete? So Julian Keegan had a pretty busy day yesterday, not just because she's

0:54.8

dealing with crisis in her own department. It comes to the bubbly concrete that's been found

0:58.8

in over a hundred schools and potentially that number could go up still but because she has

1:04.9

spent a lot of time on the airwaves and if again obviously you send the minister out in a bid

1:09.2

to calm things but then a hot mic and we just heard that in the clip saw her effectively

1:15.9

recall swearing just after an interview but it was put out there and effectively saying,

1:21.9

why doesn't everyone, I think the just of it was effectively, why don't people really

1:26.5

have difficulty at my job is and why don't people say, well done when you've done some things

1:30.0

and you do think, well does anyone ever say, you know you've done an f***ing good job because

1:35.4

everyone else has sat on their arses and done nothing.

1:38.9

Now the truth is, and I'm sure Paul has first-hand experiences, that might be the case

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