David Gauke

And again, I wouldn't be surprised at all if many of these that are released over the next few months will be recalled because they're not ready to be released.

They've reached a number... within the sentencing plan from David Gauke, but they haven't actually done anything to address their re-offending.

Well, we heard this morning from some of the prisoners that were released early that they just said, we'll be back within a matter of months.

One prisoner, I haven't got the direct quote, but was essentially saying, thank you, Andy Burnham.

So she maybe looks at that and thinks, "Well, is it worth having the biggest political fight of my life?" Despite the fact everybody in her party, you know, people like me have been against the triple lock.

David Gauke's against the triple lock.

Tom Tugendhat called it a Ponzi scheme, and he's now her, uh, shadow foreign secretary.

Um, so she, she, she ducked that.

Hello, this is David Gauke, Chair of Negotiant, and welcome to the latest in our Negotiating Government podcast.

I'm delighted to be joined once again by John Hall, a former Treasury and Department of Health official.

John, welcome.

Christopher Harbourne is literally presenting himself in the papers as the last socially liberal, fiscally conservative person in Britain.

I mean, he literally has written an article that could've been written by David Gauke.

Do you think-

It's, it's an article that's-

They included Tory MP Sarah Bull, who has made a shadow Justice Minister.

I spoke to her and the former Conservative Cabinet Minister Sir David Gauke about whether this is a government in waiting, as Kemi Badenoch claimed.

Or, alternatively, will it pass most voters by? David Gauke first.

It is always hard when you are an opposition party.