![]() Mr Vince says his donations, including £1.5m to the Labour Party over the past ten years, and other funding to Just Stop Oil, are not a "problem". "I care passionately about the the unsustainability of the world that we live in," he says. He denies claims that he is a "funder of zealots" and says he is "first and foremost an environmentalist". Labour and Just Stop Oil donor Dale Vince is next to answer questions on Sophy Ridge on Sunday. It's important not to "write everything off", Coates says, with energy bills expected to come down and inflation predicted to improve,īut sticky inflation and rising interest rates will "rebound on Rishi Sunak politically", he adds. He says a lot of Tories are "utterly miserable" over "how they've ended up in this situation with the five tests". Nobody in Number 10 appreciated where the pay row would lead at the start of the year, he adds.Ĭoates says three of the five pledges are "pulling in opposite directions" and the government is in a "horrible mess". He says the scale of industrial action is "undoubtedly contributing to problems with waiting lists". But the overall number of people waiting for treatment has risen.Īppearing on The Take, Coates says the plan was "simple" but "none of it is working out". He claimed the plan was working, with two-year waits "virtually eliminated". None of Rishi Sunak's five pledges for the country are working out in the way he wants, our deputy political editor Sam Coates says.Įarlier on the Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, Health Secretary Steve Barclay said the pledges - including a reduction in waiting lists - were "tough targets". The party is doing what it can to look "tough" and "insulate themselves" from the charge that they will bankrupt the country if it is elected to power, he adds. However Labour wants the public to notice that they are "not writing blank cheques", says Coates. it was just rhetoric, I didn't really know where it left me." "But on the much bigger question, we got neither the plan nor the principles. "That's the nugget that we were allowed to know," Coates says. On the teaching staffing crisis, we have been told of Labour's proposed bonus payment to retain teachers for at least two years. "But there is often frustration at just how little specific there is to cling onto," Coates says. He noted that more detail could be on the way from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer this week, with shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson "perhaps" not wanting to "steal thunder" when she appeared on Sophy Ridge on Sunday earlier this morning. "So much of the content just falls through your fingers as they dodge the hard facts", he tells Sophy Ridge on The Take. There is "frustration" at "little specific" detail in Labour's proposals for childcare reform and teacher retention, says our deputy political editor Sam Coates. I'd spend my life being a judge," he said. His job was "not to judge" the prime ministers and was simply to "blend in", he said. "Don't get me wrong, no one was running around laughing, but it was business usual." ![]() Mr Parsons also photographed Boris Johnson on his last day in office - when he said the former PM was doing "surprisingly well". "It would just be that moment of surprise that she would give to everyone because it wasn't expected, that just made her relax." Going through the different leaders, Mr Parsons said Theresa May would sometimes "have a laugh" with staff and would come out with one-liners. But then the last year or so, it's been pretty turbulent." "At that point I did think it can't get any better than this in the sense of historic moments. He says he was "lucky" to be given the level of access he had and "could count on one hand" how many times he was asked to leave the room for private talks.Īsked about any pinch-me moments, he points out the time when Mr Cameron stepped down and Ms May took over. Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. Mr Parsons was the official photographer under David Cameron. ![]() On Sophy Ridge on Sunday we heard an exclusive interview with Andrew Parsons, a Number 10 photographer who revealed to us some never-before-seen snaps. ![]()
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