Why has Starmer taken down a portrait of Thatcher?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Elsewhere, the government has more plans for health, and select committees have some surprising new candidates. Megan McElroy speaks to Isabel Hardman and Katy Balls.
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| 0:17.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shops, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Megan McElroy and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and Isabel Hartman. |
| 0:29.0 | Isabelle, to start us off, can you share some of the fallout from the health news that we had |
| 0:33.4 | yesterday yeah so there's been a another development in this story which is all |
| 0:38.2 | about the government's preventive health agenda and trying to well save the NHS money and save lives by getting to people early before they get sick, preferably or before they develop certain habits like smoking that will make them sick. |
| 0:55.2 | And yesterday on the podcast you were discussing the plan to ban smoking in outdoor settings |
| 1:01.1 | such as beer gardens and small parks and today we're getting more |
| 1:06.2 | details on these more proactive health mottes which have been offered for a while |
| 1:12.1 | people particularly those in their 50s and over, through |
| 1:15.8 | GPs, but this is a much more proactive scheme where the NHS will be going into offices, pubs, |
| 1:23.7 | building sites to weigh people and measure them |
| 1:27.5 | in a attempt to prevent cardiovascular disease, strokes, |
| 1:32.4 | art attacks and so on. |
| 1:33.8 | And this is quite interesting. |
| 1:35.0 | I mean, I think probably for people of a certain generation, |
| 1:37.8 | those of us who were kids in the 90s, |
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