Emily Maitlis
speaker
4,121 appearances
30 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Jun
Emily Maitlis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It completely works, you know.
And this idea that I think it's not the politics he's not good at.
I would say it is the policy itself.
And...
I think I'm just going to go out here because it's something that I've I've thought about for a long time and I feel a slight traitor to my sex in doing this.
But so many of the really dreadful, dreadful decisions from this whole government have come from the choices that Rachel Reeves has made.
And for ages, people were kind of calling her Rachel in accounts and Rachel and.
And I found it very sexist and very classist and I really pushed back on it.
But I do think that Keir Starmer didn't have an eye on what his own chancellor was actually trying to do.
And I do think that's not just the original sin.
It's so many of the problems stem from him appointing her.
to that role in the first place and not seeming to mind what she did.
And I'll just give you one example.
I talked to somebody over the weekend who's a chef, you know, works in hospitality.
And he just he just gave me the top lines in the last year.
They've gone from 120 employers, employees to 90.
Their profit has gone from 12.5 to five.
The NIC contributions, the minimum wage, the business rate increases have demolished their margins.
They're sitting on the edge of recession.
And that's just one person who's, I think, speaking for many people in that same industry and saying, you know, this is not somebody who is a raving Tory or a reform friendly.
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