Why has Rishi Sunak made five more pledges?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Canacourgenuity wealth management, |
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| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:21.6 | Now Katie this morning the Prime Minister has been in |
| 0:23.5 | North London giving a big speech. Tell us what he said. This is Ritchie |
| 0:27.4 | Scunach saying now is the time to cut tax and which immediately leads to the |
| 0:32.4 | question by how much how significant will it be and |
| 0:36.4 | will it be enough to satisfy both his party and potentially move the dial with the |
| 0:40.7 | public given very little else has. Now this was a speech he had |
| 0:45.0 | wanted to give last week but the timing of the Supreme Court judgment and then I |
| 0:48.8 | think the fact it was not good news meant that it was seen as not the right time to do it. But it is ultimately triggered |
| 0:56.1 | by the fact he can tick one of his five priorities off in the fact that inflation has been |
| 1:01.1 | halved, obviously usual caveats on how much he can say he is |
| 1:05.9 | responsible for this. |
| 1:07.8 | In the speech, Rishtine said, effectively I think the point of it was to say, I've given you |
| 1:12.3 | the hard medicine. He used the be to say you know some did not |
| 1:15.9 | think you had to do the hard work to get to the point that you can cut tax which |
| 1:19.7 | seem to be a job both for Liz Premiership, perhaps some of the things |
| 1:23.6 | team Boris Johnson have wanted him to do during his time |
| 1:26.0 | as Chancellor, and then also a Labor to a degree. |
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