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🗓️ 28 June 2021
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0:26.6 | Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel |
0:31.9 | Hartman and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Forsyth. Now the fallout from the resignation of Matt Hancock continues, |
0:39.1 | with MPs returning to Westminster with a new health secretary who will be up in the Commons this |
0:43.5 | afternoon, as will Boris Johnson. James, how are things looking after a pretty torrid few days? |
0:50.5 | So I think all eyes are on Sajid Javid today in House Commons. I don't think anyone is |
0:53.8 | expecting him to announce that any of the restrictions will lift early on July the 5th. |
0:58.7 | But I think people will be looking for a clue as to how comprehensive the reopening on the 19th of July will be. |
1:06.2 | Now, I think if you look at what Sajid Javid has said about COVID in the past, |
1:21.4 | what some of those very close to him who used to work for him are saying about his position, I think it's clear that he is slightly more bullish about easing restrictions than Matt Hancock was. So it probably changes the balance within the COVID-O, the kind of key committee, the cabinet committee that takes |
1:28.6 | these decisions in favour of a more comprehensive reopening on the 19th of July. I mean, the problem |
1:35.8 | for the government is that the fallout from Matt Hancock's resignation has not finished yet. |
1:40.4 | I mean, there are still going to be more questions about how his friend got appointed |
1:45.0 | onto her taxpayer-funded role. And I think there'll also be questions about, you know, |
1:49.7 | how many other ministerial offices have security cameras in them? And there will be questions |
1:55.1 | about which Labour will try and push on as to why Boris Johnson didn't sack Matt Hancock |
2:00.5 | and why number 10 are being quite clear, |
2:02.5 | but Matt Hancock resigned rather than being resigned. Katie, what kind of a health secretary |
2:07.7 | is Sajad Javid going to be? He's obviously been home secretary, he's been Chancellor. |
2:12.1 | What do we think he'll end up doing with the NHS to tackle the backlog, for instance, as big NHS reforms |
2:19.5 | coming up. What sort of a health secretary is he going to be? So I think the first thing to know |
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