Will Sunak lose three by-elections in a day?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

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Summary

The Tories are defending three seats next week, and could lose them all. Boris Johnson's old seat, Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Nigel Adams's old seat, Selby and Ainsty, and David Warburton's old seat, Somerton and Frome, are all being contested. How are the Tories trying to win back voters? And is it wise of Rishi Sunak to, as is rumoured he's going to, do a reshuffle straight after the results come in?

Max Jeffery speaks to Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman.

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0:00.0	The spectator combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of Unrivaled Authority.
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0:22.8	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.
0:26.8	I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and Isabelle Hardman.
0:31.5	Katie, we did a podcast yesterday just after Rishi Sunak announced his pay-offer to teachers
0:36.5	and nurses. How has it landed? Rishi Sunak was helped as we talked about yesterday by the
0:41.3	news, which is a secured and advanced, I think, for these various meetings that for the teaching
0:46.5	unions are putting this out and I think they're partly because the teachers pay rise as the one
0:51.1	they're saying is fully funded. That is the least controversial and there is optimism that
0:56.8	the school strikes at least could be over. The less good news, I think we hinted of but I think
1:01.2	has was confirmed after recording, is for example the BMA have rejected the public sector pay rise
1:07.3	for junior doctors. Now this isn't that surprising because ultimately the independent pay review
1:13.2	body recommended a 6% pay rise for junior doctors and they want a 35% pay rise. So you can see a
1:20.0	situation where that is not resolving itself. Well, either side move, if you take number 10 at
1:25.7	their word and what they're saying, it seems very unlikely. I think partly because if you look at
1:31.1	the current agreement, I think the government thinks it's gone quite far by accepting all these
1:35.9	independent pay review bodies and they don't actually know what all these savings are going to
1:40.2	come from. You keep hearing, well that would be for Secretary States to decide within their own
1:43.8	departments and obviously there's some money is coming through NHS search, charge, visa and so
1:50.9	forth but there's some difficult decisions coming down the tracks and therefore the idea I think
1:55.6	that on top of that they were then extended to certain level is not impossible but I don't
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