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Coffee House Shots
Daily political analysis from The Spectator's top team of writers, including Michael Gove, Tim Shipman, Isabel Hardman, James Heale, Lucy Dunn and many others. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Are the Tories to blame for the China spy scandal?
Keir Starmer did not go into Prime Minister’s Questions with the intention of resolving the row over the collapse of the Chinese spying case: he merel...
China spy scandal: 'a masterclass of ineptitude'?
Tim Shipman and Charles Parton, China adviser at the Council on Geostrategy, join James Heale to discuss the ongoing fallout over the collapse of the...
Spy scandal: what is Labour's policy on China?
It’s a ‘great and beautiful day’, as Donald Trump wrote in the guestbook at the Knesset, where he will address the Israeli parliament after the final...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 12/10/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
A ceasefire begins in the Middle East, as world leaders prepare for Mo...
Who is the greatest ever conservative?
From wartime leadership to economic revolutions, Conservative figures have shaped Britain’s past and present. But who stands out as the greatest of th...
How can the Tories turn it around? Live
Recorded live in Manchester, during the Conservative Party conference, Michael Gove sits down with Tim Shipman, Madeline Grant and Tim Montgomerie to...
Whisper it quietly, peace in the Middle East?
Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of his Gaza peace plan. During an extraordinary round table on the Antifa organisati...
Finally we know what Badenoch stands for
This morning Kemi Badenoch wrapped up Tory conference with a speech that will – for now at least – calm Tory jitters. The Tory leader’s hour-long addr...
Who's listening to the Tories? Live from conference
Tim Shipman, James Heale and Lucy Dunn record live at Conservative party conference in Manchester. What's the mood at conference – and has Kemi done e...
Economy: can we trust the Tories again?
Tim Shipman and Michael Simmons join Lucy Dunn live at Manchester for Conservative party conference. It's day two, and we've heard from shadow chancel...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 05/10/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
Kemi Badenoch launches the Conservative Party Conference, the home sec...
Debate: what next for the British right?
The general election result of 2024 reflected – among other things – a collapse of trust among British voters in the Conservatives. How can the Britis...
Manchester attack: Michael Gove on the rise of antisemitism
On today’s Coffee House Shots, Tim Shipman is joined by Michael Gove to reflect on the terrorist attack at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, which...
Kemi Badenoch's plan to save the Tories
The Prime Minister was set to announce his crackdown on the existing rights of refugees at the European Political Community meeting today; however, he...
Labour's deputy divisions: insider vs outsider?
Tim Shipman and Claire Ainsley from the Progressive Policy Institute join Patrick Gibbons to reflect on Labour's party conference as it draws to a clo...
Starmer delivers 'the speech of his life'
We have just heard the Prime Minister’s headline speech at Labour Party Conference and – whisper it quietly – that might have been Keir Starmer’s best...
Shabana Mahmood in conversation with Michael Gove – Labour Conference 2025
Whilst a certain noisy northern mayor has positioned himself as the problem child of conference 2025, The Spectator finds another Labour politician fa...
Labour conference: 'a holiday from reality'?
Labour party conference has kicked off in Liverpool, and the Chancellor has just delivered her keynote speech.
‘Security, security, security’ wa...
Labour’s ‘levelling up’ agenda – Michael Gove interviews Steve Reed
On the eve of Labour’s party conference, the Spectator's editor Michael Gove sits down with Steve Reed MP, the new Secretary of State for Housing, Com...
ID cards are back: will they work?
The Labour machine has whirred into gear to try and contain a certain Northern mayor’s mischievous interventions this week, by announcing a big contro...
Starmer's make-or-break conference
Labour conference kicks off this weekend in Liverpool – but the mood going in is far from triumphant.
On today's Coffee House Shots, Lucy Dunn...
What is 'Manchesterism'?
Andy Burnham, Manchester’s mayor and self-styled champion of the North, is openly flirting with a return to Westminster just days before the Labour Pa...
Ed Davey pitches himself as the anti-Farage
The Liberal Democrat party conference in Bournemouth has concluded with a speech from leader Sir Ed Davey. While the current crop of Liberal Democrats...
Farage goes after Boris
Nigel Farage has unveiled his most radical immigration plan yet – scrapping indefinite leave to remain for migrants – in a move designed to reverse th...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 21/09/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
The UK has officially recognised the state of Palestine. In the mornin...
Should Britain recognise Palestine?
The government is expected to press ahead with recognition of Palestinian statehood, before a formal declaration at the United Nations. Prime Minister...
Inside the 'Your Party' meltdown
Who would have thought it? Jeremy Corbyn’s insurgent party co-venture with Zarah Sultana seems to have imploded before it even got going. On Thursday,...
Trump’s state visit was a ‘news bonanza’
Donald Trump has been in the UK this week on an unprecedented second state visit – an honour that he said last night at a state dinner he ‘hopes’ is r...
Andy Burnham’s ‘fantasy politics’
Donald Trump might be in the UK for the state visit, but it’s Labour pains that are dominating the headlines and, predictably, there is a typical nort...
Will Trump's state visit save Starmer?
Keir Starmer has lost another aide, MPs are debating what the Prime Minister knew about Mandelson's links to Epstein and a new poll has Lucy Powell as...
Why Danny Kruger’s defection to Reform matters
The big news in Westminster today is that there has been another defection to Reform. But this time it feels slightly different: a front bench Tory wi...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/09/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
It feels like an unnervingly normal week for this Labour government, w...
What does Trump want from his state visit?
Donald Trump touches down in Britain next week for his state visit and political editor Tim Shipman has the inside scoop on how No. 10 is preparing. K...
Will Mandelson bring down McSweeney?
The fallout from Lord Mandelson's sacking continues. All eyes are now on Keir Starmer's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney – could he take the fall for M...
Prince of Darkness sacked (again)
Another week, another departure.
Conservative MP Neil O'Brien – who serves in the shadow cabinet as minister for policy renewal and development...
Badenoch skewers Starmer over Mandelson’s Epstein link
Kemi Badenoch has just skewered Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions on the topic of Peter Mandelson’s association with the convicted paedophile...
Quite right! Episode 2, out now
Michael Gove and Madeline Grant return with another episode of Quite right!, The Spectator’s new podcast promising sanity and common sense in an incre...
Will Shabana stop the boats?
With the announcement yesterday that the government would be prepared to suspend visas for countries that don’t cooperate with the UK over deportation...
Reform conference review: is this 'British MAGA'?
Reform UK’s annual conference wrapped up this weekend – and it was anything but dull. From Andrea Jenkyns belting out her original song ‘I’m an Insomn...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 07/09/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
Reform are having fun at their conference, while Labour struggle with...