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Coffee House Shots

Why is Rishi now going to Cop?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak has said that he will now attend the Cop 27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, which begins on Sunday. What's behind the U-turn, and should we expect more policy reversals from the new PM? 

Katy Balls speaks to Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson and Max Jeffery.

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0:00.0

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0:16.9

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

0:20.9

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyff and Fraser Nelson.

0:25.2

Today is a significant day in Richie's Unique's premiership.

0:28.9

It is the day of his first U-turn.

0:32.8

Fraser, we heard last week that Richie's Unique from Downey Street was not planning to go to

0:37.2

COP27 as he was going to work on the autumn statement. Now he is planning to go, what does this

0:42.4

tell us? But the laddie is for returning, I'm afraid to say, of no great opinions whether he

0:47.5

should or shouldn't go to COP. But what I do think is that when Richie's Unique says he

0:51.7

does something, he'd better do it. If he establishes a reputation for somebody who can get blown

0:57.2

around, then he will get blown around. If he responds to pressure, people will apply more pressure

1:02.4

to him. Now I can see by the way of reason for not going to COP26, he's got a 27 sorry.

1:07.9

Now that he's got a budget to do, he's got a small boat's crisis to...

1:11.9

Pretty long flight.

1:12.9

On all the rest of it, £2,000 a room hotel nights, who needs it? In many ways this is all,

1:19.0

you know, I think Greta Thimberg's quite right to say that this is sort of staged nonsense.

1:24.4

Now he's saying, oh, this is very important, the biggest problem facing our planet, etc,

1:28.4

except it's completely not. But anyway, suffice to say, he's going along with that.

1:32.9

And now he's going off to do what he said he wouldn't do. Now it doesn't, you know, a huge thing,

1:38.4

but I do think it's worrying because there's going to be lots of other people wanting to blow

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