Hello and

welcome to the spike podcast. I'm Fraser and with me this week as ever we have Spikes editor Tom Slater

and spike columnist Ella Wheelen.

Hi.

Coming up on the show we'll be discussing the Downing Street Garden Party, life after COVID, the Lab Leak theory, and whether

it's racist to call a black person eloquent. So this week evidence emerged of yet another lockdown busting Garden Party in Downing Street.

This is probably the government's lowest point,

Yen, I would say. Boris Johnson is really on the rocks. Very struggling to

fend off the accusations of rule-breaking, struggling to account for his behaviour.

Tom, what have you made of it?

No, you're right.

I think it feels like the wheels are starting to come off at this point.

I mean, we've been treated to sort of one scandal after another COVID-breaking

related or not over the course of the past few months.

But I think this one feels very different.

I think it even feels different from the other rule-breaking scandals that have happened so far,

which were becoming increasingly tiresome, borderline,

question of a Zoom quiz here or a few drinks at your desk there.

This feels a little bit different, I think, because of the fact that it was in the middle of

the first lockdown

when not only were the restrictions so tight

but also there was so much kind of fear

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