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Coffee House Shots: is Keir Starmer turning into Rishi Sunak?

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The government is trailing a major policy speech ahead of Thursday, in which the Prime Minister will set out key 'milestones' that he wants to hit, in terms of healthcare, living standards, the climate and so on. It's all sounding a little like a previous prime minister... Cindy Yu talks to Katy Balls and James Heale about the opportunities and perils in setting public targets.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash Friday.

0:11.8

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Cindy Yu

0:16.6

and I'm joined by James Hill and Katie Balls. So to start the week, we're hearing about something potentially exciting happening on Thursday,

0:24.0

which the government is not calling a reset, but Katie.

0:27.8

The R word is on everyone's mind that it seems anyway.

0:30.9

And is it actually going to be exciting?

0:32.2

What's happening?

0:33.2

It depends on what your definition of exciting is.

0:36.3

You know, different people. Each of that. Different things I want to do on the weekend and so forth, or on a Thursday even when the speech is due.

0:44.5

Ultimately, we know that Kirstama is giving a big speech.

0:47.7

It's about priorities for change.

0:49.9

I think Tom Bolden and the Spectator mentioned a while ago, some of the polling work they were doing

0:54.3

for this and how it was a development onwards from the missions. So it means the official line,

1:00.3

if you listen to Pat McFadden out on the morning round and if you speak to someone in number 10,

1:04.3

is this is not a reset. This is a continuation on our mission driven government. And so on we go. Of course, I think choosing to give

1:14.1

quite a big speech just before Christmas when you have had a pretty torrid start, lots of

1:20.1

issues going on with the government, I think it is at the very least an implicit acceptance

1:26.4

that they need to be better when it comes to communicating

1:29.8

what they're doing to the country and in terms of speaking to people's priorities. And also,

1:36.8

I think if you look at some of the things we're expecting them to say, a little bit of a course

1:40.3

correction. So the general vibe is it would be building on the five missions. So staying

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