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Welcome to The Restless Politics Emergency Podcast with me, Rory Stewart.

And me, Alistair Campbell, and Rory, thank you for doing it because I know you've just got off a plane.

You'd be amazed at how much Twitter demand there was for us to do this.

So we're getting towards 11 o'clock, where I am getting towards one in the morning.

I know, so thank you for that.

But I do think that what appears to be a very large nail going into the coffin of Boris Johnson's political career,

merits an emergency podcast.

I don't know how much you've been able to follow, but it's been a very, very, very strange day.

You and I were in London together this morning.

And since then, first of all, we had Nadine Dorries, saying on her TV station that she is not going to be provoking a by-election,

because at that time she thought she was going to be on a peerage list and she would sort of hang around for a bit.

And then it turned out that she wasn't in Boris Johnson's resignation honors.

And so she decided to throw a choice out of the problem.

Sorry, just on that one, I said, am I right in saying she probably was in Boris Johnson's resignation honors,

but that Rishi Sunak decided to strip certain people out of Boris Johnson's resignation honors.

That is why it just happened.

However, Rishi Sunak, Downey Street, claiming that Rishi Sunak had nothing to do with this,

that I know to be nonsense because he has to have something to do with it because he has to sign off the resignation honors.

And indeed, on this podcast, you were encouraging him to try to strip some of the people out of Boris Johnson's resignation honors.

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