Coffee House Shots: Year in Review 2024
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🗓️ 21 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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On the podcast, the panel discuss the rise of Reform UK and Nigel Farage as a political force, Labour’s adjustment to government, and Michael reveals his reaction to Rishi telling Cabinet that he was going for a summer election.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson and Megan McElroy.
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| 0:00.0 | Get three months of The Spectator for just £15, plus a free bottle of Paul Rage champagne if you go to spectator.com.uk, forward slash, jingle. This offer is UK only and time limited. |
| 0:16.6 | It's been a historic year in British politics. The ousting of the Conservative Party after 14 years in government. |
| 0:23.5 | The rise of the Reform Party now with five MPs. |
| 0:26.8 | And Labour's landslide victory, which has turned sour very quickly indeed. |
| 0:31.6 | On this episode of Coffee House shots, we'll be taking a look at the major events of 2024. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Balls, Michael |
| 0:39.0 | Gove and a sketchwriter and spectator contributor, Quintan Letts. So the biggest penitical news of the year, |
| 0:45.1 | Katie, of course, has been the ousting of the Conservative Party after 14 years in power. Can you remind |
| 0:50.1 | listeners of the political situation leading up to the calling of the election and was there |
| 0:54.9 | any world in which the Tories could have won? |
| 0:57.2 | I'd be interesting for the views of others on the panel too on this who will have had a different |
| 1:02.1 | perspective. But I think it was quite clear going into 2024 that the Tories would have had |
| 1:07.4 | had a near impossible task in terms of winning the election and turning |
| 1:11.2 | things around. Lots of people say, oh, if only Rishi Zedat had held on to the autumn, things |
| 1:15.7 | could have looked a lot better. Look how Labour started to implode, though you could argue that |
| 1:20.3 | was the pressure of government. There was the main trigger there. But would there have been a rates |
| 1:23.8 | cut? Would that have helped? But I do think we were entering the world by which it was a |
| 1:28.1 | question of what is the scale of defeat, Rural, and is there going to be a shock victory for the |
| 1:33.5 | Tories? It really, I think, started to go wrong for Rishi Seneck in 2023. And for example, I |
| 1:40.0 | recently interviewed Rishish Senex Chief of Staff, Liam Booth Smith on election dates dates. And he said the mistake was not that they went for the summer instead of the autumn of |
| 1:49.0 | 2024. |
| 1:50.0 | The mistake was that they should have gone much earlier, you know, a year in in the spring. |
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