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Find out how we are busy helping Britain achieve net zero at www.edufenergy.com. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman and I'm joined in Brighton by Katie Balls and in London by James Forsyth.

Now James, Katie and I are in a conference bubble and this year the conference bubble has got particularly thick walls in that the fuel crisis isn't really percolating that much. So just bring us up to speed

on what most of the country is interested in. So the fuel crisis continues to dominate the news.

Grant Shaps are going to be ever optimistic. Transport Secretary has been out suggesting there's

some early signs that the situation is beginning to stabilise. I think this is the government's big hope is that unlike with

kind of loo roll and pasta at the beginning of the COVID crisis, you know, there's not many places

you can store petrol, certainly safely, other than your car car and so once people have filled up then

those problems should come to an end but i think there is still there are still supply problems i

heard yesterday from a lawyer friend of mine who's doing a trial and the defendant could be brought to

court because there wasn't sufficient fuel for him to be to be to be driven to

attend and so and you've there are stories today of teachers being unable to get to to work to teach

their classes care workers unable to reach people you've had the bMA suggesting there should be

kind of priority given to NHS staff and other emergency workers.

But I think the government's hope is that the kind of short-term crisis begins to smooth out

because what you essentially saw over the weekend was a very large amount of people filling up

their car for the week in anticipation of troubles to come.

And that should ease some of the pressure

as the week goes on. That might well be true, but I don't think that solves some of the underlying

problems. And I think one of the things that complicates this debate is everyone wants to debate

whether it's about Brexit or not about Brexit. I think it would be foolish to claim that

Brexit isn't a factor at all, but it's obviously not just Brexit. I think it would be foolish to claim that Brexit isn't a factor at all.

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