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🗓️ 15 February 2025
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0:00.0 | We are very pleased to announce the full line-up for our Coffee House Shots live event on the 26th |
0:04.9 | February at the Emanuel Centre in Westminster. Join Coffee House Shots regulars, Michael Gove, |
0:10.1 | Casey Balls, Kate Andrews, as well as very special guests, Robert Jenrick and Jonathan Ashworth |
0:15.0 | for a look to the year ahead. They will be tackling such questions as, can the Chancellor |
0:19.9 | reframe the budget in her first spring |
0:21.3 | statement? What will Trump's first 100 days look like? And will reform cause an upset at the local |
0:26.4 | elections? So that's Emmanuel Centre, 730, 26th of February. And for tickets, go to |
0:31.7 | spectator.com.com.com. We look forward to seeing you there. |
0:40.2 | Hello and welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. |
0:43.6 | I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by Michael Forsyth, Minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, |
0:49.0 | and finally Secretary of State for Scotland and the end of that last government. |
0:52.7 | Now, we're joined today by Michael because |
0:54.7 | it's 50 years this week since Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative Party. |
0:58.7 | It's a big year for anniversaries. It's also the centenary since her birth. Michael, welcome to the |
1:03.1 | podcast. I just wanted to ask, first of all, what do you think Margaret Thatcher would make of |
1:08.1 | politics today if she were leader of the Conservative Party now? |
1:11.4 | I think she'd be pretty appalled, actually. She was very much someone who was very careful |
1:17.7 | in deciding policy. She was very careful in how she made her speeches. The idea that politics |
1:25.8 | was about slogans on Twitter would have, she would have |
1:28.6 | found that very difficult to understand. And a lot of people, I think, don't realize that when she |
1:35.4 | became leader of the Conservative Party 50 years ago, a huge amount of work had gone into working |
1:41.9 | out exactly how we would save the country, because that's what we |
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