# The most powerful woman in Britain Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/coffee-house-shots-496891/the-most-powerful-woman-in-britain Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/coffee-house-shots-496891/the-most-powerful-woman-in-britain.md Podcast: [Coffee House Shots](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coffee-house-shots-496891) Published: 2026-09-10T13:20:31+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/coffee-house-shots/episodes/the-most-powerful-woman-in-britain Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68359028e1abc4be6b032cd1/e/6aa2ae9fc939da279549f281/media.mp3?tk=eyJ0ayI6ImRlZmF1bHQiLCJhZHMiOnRydWUsInNwb25zIjp0cnVlLCJzdGF0dXMiOiJwdWJsaWMifQ==&sig=Ye0aO9VdSrxdRnS3J9DqJp7ccF3tcbOTBAffpQmVWxM Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/coffee-house-shots-496891/episodes/the-most-powerful-woman-in-britain Duration seconds: 733 ## Resource After plans emerged for the Cabinet Secretary, Dame Antonia Romeo, to consolidate power across the civil service this week, Oscar Edmondson is joined by James Heale and Tim Shipman, to discuss this week's political column , in which Tim unpacks the potentials motives behind the new alpha at the very top of Whitehall. Produced by Henry Lloyd Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more. For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts . Contact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/coffee-house-shots-496891/episodes/the-most-powerful-woman-in-britain/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/coffee-house-shots-496891/the-most-powerful-woman-in-britain.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.