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Coffee House Shots

Would Starmer really build more houses?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer promised in an interview with the Times today that as prime minister he would back the 'builders not the blockers'. But is it all bluster? 

Max Jeffery speaks to Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman.

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0:00.0

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0:19.7

Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

0:24.1

I'm Max Jeffery and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and Isabelle Hodman.

0:28.5

Oliver Dowden and Angela Reiner, Clash in the Commons today at PMQs.

0:32.5

Isabelle, can you tell us what happened?

0:35.1

Well, Oliver Dowden has been preparing for Prime Minister's questions for about 20 years and today

0:41.5

he got his understudy moment as Deputy Prime Minister. He has prepared four conservative leaders,

0:48.1

Michael Howard, David Cameron, Theresa May and Rishi Sunak. So he gave, it was a bit like watching a sort of

0:57.3

a training course on how to do politics with a textbook demonstration of how to do PMQs.

1:04.9

You know, you had a joke about his opponents, a little bit of a welcome for Angela Reiner,

1:11.6

a mention of Labour Ron Wales, a mention of Reiner's support for Jeremy Corbyn,

1:17.5

a nod to his backstory as a comprehensive school to boys. He described himself.

1:24.8

And the session, it went quite smoothly, both for him and for Angela Reiner. He described

1:30.0

Angela Reiner and Keir Starmer as being the fill and holly of British politics, a nice zeitgeist

1:37.7

joke there. And Angela Reiner talked about the Tories, not providing a minimum service level

1:44.8

after Oliver Dowden made the obligatory reference to the Labour Party, refusing to back the

1:51.6

conservative government's minimum service levels for striking workers. So it ticked all the

1:58.6

boxes. Did we learn anything? No, were we expecting to learn anything from PMQs? Probably not.

2:06.1

But I think the real question that both parties are asking and that was the sort of overarching

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