What does the Chancellor Rachel Reeves have in common with American singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter? And how should world leaders deal with Donald Trump? Tory peer David Frost, Labour peer Maurice Glasman and pollster James Kanagasooriam joined Spectator editor Michael Gove and Spectator political editor Katy Balls to answer these questions, and plenty of others, at the latest Coffee House Shots Live podcast at London’s Cadogan Hall.
The panel unpacked Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement at the on-stage recording last week, just hours after the Chancellor had delivered it in the Commons. Michael Gove said the statement – in which Reeves revealed Britain’s growth forecast for this year has been slashed – was thin gruel:
‘It’s not Diana Ross that I thought of when I heard the Spring Statement. Instead, I thought of Sabrina Carpenter. Because this Spring Statement had very little in it that was original. It just about covered the essentials. And the Chancellor refused to say what the real cost was, no matter how many times people asked the question’.
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