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Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shops, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Me Megan McElroy and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Katie Balls.

Grant Shapps has been out on the media round today. Here's what he had to say.

The simple point is that if you want to make sure that in this next government,

whoever forms it, that there's a proper system of accountability,

then we would argue that you want to make, you don't want to have somebody receive a super majority and in this case of course the concern

would be that if Gerestarma were to go into number 10 and will either be Richez-Zinnak or Kerestama

there's no other outcome to this election and that power was in some way unchecked.

It would be very bad news for people in this country.

Fraser, what did you make of his performance?

I was quite struck by this.

You hear Tori is talking a lot about this in private, but never in public.

Now the private argument goes as such.

We are completely screwed in this election. There's no chance of

us winning and the best argument is to say to the public, look, we're not going to

get another five years in power, we don't deserve another five years in power, but labor don't deserve a massive majority because the way things

are going they're going to have 300 strong majority that would give them a carte blanche

not just for five years but for ten years. So if you do think that

Starmer deserves power that you want somebody to keep a close eye on him then votes

conservative to make sure there's enough of us in opposition. I know one minister who's openly making

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