Has Carrie divided No. 10?
Yet more personnel changes have happened in Downing Street, with Oliver Lewis the latest to depart. The weekend papers were full of briefings that Carrie Symonds is the reason for the latest strife. C...
22 Feb 202115min
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 21/02/21
Isabel Hardman rounds up the highlights from Sunday's interview shows. Featured today are Matt Hancock, Sir Keir Starmer, John McDonnell, The Most Reverend Justin Welby and Jo Whiley.Become a Spectato...
21 Feb 202111min
Boris's climate conundrum
While coronavirus has dominated the last year in politics, domestic issues are creeping back onto the agenda. Near the top of the list is reaching Net Zero by 2050 - not least because climate-consciou...
20 Feb 202113min
Has Macron stolen Boris's G7 thunder?
Emmanuel Macron has said wealthy nations should begin donating up to five per cent of their vaccines to Africa. It comes as Boris Johnson hosts a virtual G7 today - Joe Biden's first multilateral meet...
19 Feb 20219min
Why Starmer is no modern day Beveridge
Today's speech from the Labour leader was billed to be 'Beveridge-style'. On the podcast, Kate Andrews tells Katy Balls and James Forsyth why it was nothing of the sort, and they strategise what Starm...
18 Feb 202114min
Why is the government banking on lateral flow tests?
It's not the Forsyth Spit Bucket, but it may help us ease lockdown. Cindy Yu talks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls about why the government is banking so much on rapid tests, given that vaccination wa...
17 Feb 202117min
Will rapid testing bring back nightclubs?
Nadhim Zahawi this morning said that scientists are working on rapid Covid tests to reopen large events. The vaccine deployment minister said that 'new technologies' are being trialled at the Porton D...
16 Feb 20219min
What does Boris’s ‘cautious’ approach mean for lockdown easing?
Despite the UK hitting its target of giving 15 million people their first vaccine dose by 15 February, Boris Johnson said the path to reopening will be 'cautious but irreversible'. What does this appr...
15 Feb 202118min
