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Coffee House Shots
Daily political analysis from The Spectator's top team of writers, including Michael Gove, Tim Shipman, Isabel Hardman, James Heale, Lucy Dunn and many others. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Will Scotland switch course in 2026? with Gordon McKee
The Spectator heads into Christmas a little bit less Scottish as we bid farewell to our political correspondent Lucy Dunn. Before Lucy leaves for STV,...
‘Growth is not Labour’s priority, it’s hilarious’
The British economy is shrinking. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that GDP fell by 0.1 per cent in the three mo...
Does Farage really want to be Prime Minister?
How does Reform go from political insurgents to a government in waiting? Political editor Tim Shipman gives an insight into his interview with Nigel F...
Kemi is on a roll
Kemi Badenoch’s good form continues at Prime Minister’s Questions. The Tory leader was once more visibly enjoying herself today as she feasted on Labo...
Is a Ukraine peace deal inching closer?
This week Keir Starmer hosted the French President and the German Chancellor in Downing Street as the E3 moved closer to a landmark agreement: seizing...
Why Kemi is safer than Keir
This morning Kemi Badenoch has staged a presser setting out the terms for a new (alternative) national grooming gangs inquiry – a move that has reopen...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 07/12/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
Youth unemployment is rising quickly. What is the government's plan?
‘Superadvisers’ and the Starmer paradox: who really runs No. 10?
This weekend’s Coffee House Shots digs into the growing debate over whether Keir Starmer should tack left on the economy as voters peel away to the Gr...
Brexit's back – and so is Truss
There has been a flurry of UK-European activity across Britain this week, with the German state visit in London, the Norwegian Prime Minister signing...
The murky world of political donations
Reform are in the money. This morning the Electoral Commission has dropped the latest figures on political donations, and Reform are streets ahead. Fo...
PMQs: at least Kemi is enjoying herself
It was PMQs today and it is clear to see that Kemi Badenoch is starting to enjoy herself. She opened with the departure of the head of the Office for...
Lammy on trial over plans to scrap juries
Today we’re going to be talking about David Lammy, and his brand new plans to drastically reduce the number of jury trials in the UK in an attempt to...
Did Rachel Reeves lie?
Lots has happened over the weekend – Your Party (as they are now actually called) have proven to be the gift that keeps on giving, there been another...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 30/11/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
Rachel Reeves says she can be trusted. But did she lie in the run-up t...
Disraeli to Reeves: how each Chancellor drank their way through the Budget
Throughout the years, the only person permitted to drink inside the House of Commons is the Chancellor, so what has been the tipple of choice for each...
The black hole myth & the brain drain conundrum
With Budget week finally at an end, certain mysteries remain. Chief among them is why the Chancellor decided to give an emergency speech preparing the...
The OBR on the Budget leak & why they're always wrong
Tim Shipman sits down with Professor David Miles of the Office for Budget Responsibility the day after a Budget overshadowed by an extraordinary leak....
Rachel Reeves’s farcical Budget
As Budget days go, today was unprecedented. The complete list of measures announced by Rachel Reeves – along with their costings and economic impacts...
Why Reeves's smorgasbord Budget won't fix Britain
James Nation, managing director at Forefront Advisers, and Michael Simmons join James Heale to analyse what we know, one day ahead of the Budget. Jame...
Britain's expensive energy problem – with Claire Coutinho
Britain has an energy problem – while we produce some of the cleanest in the world, it's also the most expensive, and that's the case for almost every...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 23/11/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
This week, Labour’s crucial budget is almost here, and Trump’s peace...
Why Britain needs more Yimbys
Chris Curtis and Maxwell Marlow may have different political ideologies, but they agree on one key diagnosis: Britain is broken. Their solution can be...
Covid report: ‘a £200 million I told you so’
Yesterday we had the publication of the second module of the Covid Inquiry on the decision-making at the heart of government. It confirmed a toxic and...
Is Labour turning blue?
While we wait for the findings of the Covid Inquiry into the decision-making during the pandemic, Shabana Mahmood has given a statement in the Commons...
Labour's 'dog whistle politics'
Neither Kemi Badenoch nor Keir Starmer performed very well at Prime Minister’s Questions: both fluffed their lines early on. Badenoch managed to sugge...
Mahmood's right turn, as migration figures revised – again
Economics editor Michael Simmons and Yvette Cooper's former adviser Danny Shaw join Patrick Gibbons to react to the Home Secretary's plans for asylum...
Shabana Mahmood vs the asylum system
This afternoon, the Home Secretary will set out in the House of Commons her proposed reforms to the asylum system. The headline changes proposed by Sh...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/11/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
Labour are set to announce a raft of new measures to fix an asylum sys...
Why are so many prisoners accidentally released? With H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons
Britain’s prisons are a legislative problem that has beset successive governments. New revelations show 91 accidental early releases in just six month...
What is going on in the Treasury!?
With less than a fortnight to go until the Budget, it seems Rachel Reeves has performed an almighty U-turn. At the beginning of the week, the establis...
Politics vs economics: which is Labour worst at?
It’s been another bruising week for the British economy. New GDP figures reveal that growth has almost flatlined, inching up by just 0.1 per cent betw...
Wes for PM?
Conspiracy or cock-up? Westminster is abuzz after what appears to be a plan to decapitate Wes Streeting has spectacularly backfired. A flurry of late-...
Labour's vibes are all wrong
With two weeks until her Budget, Rachel Reeves has received more bad news: unemployment is now at its highest level since the pandemic. With the Chanc...
What now for the BBC?
It seems that the BBC is once again setting the news agenda – via tales of its own incompetence. The Corporation has spent days battling accusations t...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 09/11/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
On Remembrance Sunday, Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton...
What Trump II can teach Britain
What lessons does America have for our politics? While progressives look to Zohran Mamdani for inspiration on how to get elected successfully, the rea...
Pain is inevitable for Rachel Reeves
A year ago, the Chancellor called her £38 billion tax rise a ‘one-and-done’ move. Now she looks set to rinse and repeat, with reports that a 2p increa...
Why energy is the new political battleground
With three weeks until the Budget, the main political parties have been setting out their economic thinking. Each faces the same bind: anaemic growth,...
The most bizarre PMQs ever
In a crowded field, today’s could have been the most bizarre PMQs ever.
From David Lammy pronouncing ‘I am the Justice Secretary’ as if it were...
Reeves prepares the public for tax hikes
It is three weeks until the Budget – and Rachel Reeves wants to get her narrative out there. The Chancellor held an early morning press conference tod...