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

Hello and Spiked columnist Ella Wheeland.

Hi. There's only one thing to talk about this week and that is the fall of Boris Johnson. So the Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally resigned on Thursday after more than 50 ministers

quit his government in a 48 hour period.

The beginning of the end was triggered by the Chris Pincher scandal, his wandering hands.

Johnson tried to claim he had no knowledge of Pincher's reputation. This lie was quickly exposed and then the rest is history.

Tom, when Boris Johnson first came to power, or certainly when he won the 2019 general election with this overwhelming mandate,

there was a sense that he was unimpeachable, that he was going to be around for decades for several terms

he was going to transform the country and yet he's leaving after just three years

you know roughly the same kind of time as Theresa May had what do you think that means what do you think that tells us?

So much and I'm sure we'll get into it over the course of this whole episode. I suppose ultimately the Boris project has failed

given the fact that he's left Downing Street and there's all kinds of different reasons for that. I think it's important to remember just how important that election was, how seismic it was in securing Brexit, but also really sending a message to the establishment which has spent the previous few years trying to overturn the

vote for Brexit, trying to kind of reassert its authority after the Brexit vote to say who's

in charge essentially. All of that was really important and it really felt like there was a change in the air you know

Boris Johnson really rode that popular sentiment all the way to number 10 to have to a very strong

majority and there was talk even at the time of like the know deepening this, you know, the Tories were talking in the manifesto about

reviewing the role of the House of Lords and judicial review and all these different things. They recognized that Brexit was about

democracy. It wasn't about any of the allegations that were leveled at it in terms of xenophobia or whatever.

It was this really moment which felt like it could turn into something transformative or at least would shift the dial in a more interesting

direction but as you say less than three years later we're here again another Tory prime minister

failed and to ask you to answer the question of why that happened I think there's two things

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