Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 09/03/2025
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 9 March 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Pat McFadden addresses Starmer's 'coalition of the willing', and incoming reforms at Whitehall, somewhat elusively. Richard Tice defends the timing of Reform MP Rupert Lowe's suspension, and Chris Philp speaks about the Tories' suggestion to ignore the Human Rights Act when judges make decisions on immigration. Meanwhile, the Latvian President argues that other European nations should be considering conscription.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday roundup. |
| 0:17.3 | This week, the US suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine in a move which dramatically weakens |
| 0:23.0 | Kiev's ability to predict large incoming attacks. |
| 0:26.7 | Following the move by Trump's administration, Russia carried out massive missile and drone |
| 0:31.4 | attacks across Ukraine. |
| 0:33.5 | The UK and France have spearheaded a coalition of the willing, which could provide troops on the ground in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire, but it is unclear yet how many countries will sign up to the initiative. |
| 0:45.9 | On the BBC, Laura Coonsberg spoke to Senior Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden. |
| 0:50.6 | I think when you use the word scale, it's a good way to use it because what I think people are coming to terms with is the scale of change in European security in recent weeks. |
| 1:02.2 | Donald Trump's not the first American president to say that Europe had to step up and do more for its own security, but the pace and scale of that calling, if you like, |
| 1:13.2 | has definitely changed in the last month. And what's important when the world is changing, |
| 1:18.2 | as fast as it is right now, is that we understand the change, we respond to it, and we explain |
| 1:24.1 | it to the public. And that's exactly what the Prime Minister has been doing. But it's also important |
| 1:27.4 | for people to know what that response might look like. |
| 1:30.5 | Are you realistically looking at the UK and France, maybe going it alone? |
| 1:35.0 | We've heard from the Foreign Minister of Norway. |
| 1:37.4 | We'll hear this interview later in the programme. |
| 1:39.1 | He didn't seem committing. |
| 1:40.6 | He said that his country doesn't sort of know enough about what you're really talking about. So are you really hopeful that you're going to get something like 20 countries being |
| 1:48.1 | part of this? Or might this just be the UK and France? Well, I don't think the measure of success |
| 1:55.0 | is adding up just the number of countries. And it's fair enough for other Prime Ministers to say, |
| 2:00.4 | I want to know more. |
| 2:01.8 | But what's important is this, what's really important is this, |
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