Coffee House Shots Live: A Look To The Year Ahead
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The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The main topic of discussion was, of course, Donald Trump, whose inauguration has ushered in a new world disorder. His ‘shock and awe’ foreign policy has sent Europe scrambling as it tries to work out who will be responsible for ensuring its security in the future. We have seen a move away from the idealism that has defined foreign policy in the last decade and towards ‘realism’, with countries committing to boots on the ground and greater defence spending. Are Labour right to increase their defence pledge? Is Kemi Badenoch being energetic enough in holding the government to account – not just on its foreign policy, but on its record in government so far? And – closer to home – how worried are the Tories about the rise of Reform?
This discussion was originally recorded on Wednesday 26 February.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Coffee House Shots is sponsored by Alliance Witten Investment Trust. From the OPEC |
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| 0:46.3 | Hello and welcome to the special live edition of Coffee House Shots. |
| 1:05.4 | Thank you. has shots. And it's a very special edition too, because this is going to be the last coffee house shots live with Kate Andrews for a while. Because she's about, yes, so now |
| 1:10.4 | you can sound very sad. |
| 1:13.6 | Because though, she is moving to America for the spectator to be the new deputy |
| 1:21.3 | spec US editor. So your New York dream is soon to happen. |
| 1:25.6 | It is. Please come visit. Okay, great. |
| 1:28.3 | We'll do one in American pay for everyone to get there. |
| 1:31.3 | And so welcome to Kate. |
| 1:33.3 | And then we also have Michael Gove, the Spectator's Editor. |
| 1:40.3 | And two special guests. |
| 1:42.3 | We're delighted to have Jonathan Ashworth, CEO of Labor Together. |
| 1:47.0 | And we're particularly thrilled because you actually have done one of these before and you still decided to come back. |
| 1:57.0 | And then finally, Robert Jenrick, Shadow Justice Secretary. |
| 2:09.7 | So the title is fairly broad for today's discussion, |
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