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Coffee House Shots

Will the locals be a horror show for Rishi?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The first day of Easter recess is a chance to reflect on the last couple of months in politics and look at the challenges that lie ahead. As Keir Starmer launches his local election campaign in Swindon today, how are the parties going to position themselves for their largest reckoning this year? The polls predict a hammering for Rishi Sunak, and could this be a good result for the Lib Dems? Natasha Feroze speaks to James Heale and Katy Balls. 

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0:00.0

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0:18.6

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

0:22.4

I'm Natasha Rose and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Hill.

0:26.8

Today is the start of the Easter recess and we're going to have both a look back at this last month

0:32.0

and then a look ahead to some of the challenges for the Tories and Labour.

0:36.3

Katie, do you think that the Tories have had a good last couple of months?

0:40.9

Months might be a bit much. I think they've had a good month.

0:44.7

I think you're looking at the state of the parties as, you know, MPs head for this break.

0:50.5

I think at the beginning of the year it was pretty downbeat for Rishisunak.

0:55.2

Yes, you had the five priorities and Rishisunak trying to almost start the year for what he wanted to do

1:01.6

after coming in firefighting, following the leadership result, he obviously came in a chaotic

1:07.6

scenario after his trust left, but then struggling to make noise in various ways.

1:12.9

And I think in the past month since the Windsor Framework there's just a bit more energy behind

1:17.2

Rishisunak and a bit more focus and you just sense, I think, confidence breeds confidence.

1:21.9

So you have a situation where I think the Tories just feel a bit more upbeat place.

1:27.3

And we're back to a situation which may change where we're talking more about conservative policies

1:36.0

than conservative psychodramas. So the anti-social behaviour pushed us weak.

1:40.4

I think next week we'll be getting more on grooming gangs.

1:43.6

You have a place where I think numbers had at least setting some of their gender

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