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Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffeehouse Shots.

Boris Johnson is in trouble. Questions are being asked over how long he can stay in position.

But one of the things helping to keep him in place is the fact that there is no consensus

in the Tory party over who would be best to replace him.

Fraser, in your telegraph column this week, you write about the fact that the two front

runners, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, are not in a position to move.

Why is that?

I don't think either of them feel they can start canvassing opinion right now. Every move they make is scrutinised. Rishi Sunak,

for example, cannot so much as go and buy a pint of milk without number 10 reading some malign intent

into it right now. Carrie Johnson in particular, the Prime Minister's wife, regards him as the main

threat to Boris.

So she's got this paranoia and she's still more influential than me in a number 10 machine than

is generally let on. So Rishi Sunak has to be careful. He has been taking politicians in

recently to talk about, you know, the future of this, the future of that. And midway through

these conversations, he will say to them, by the way, you know, you do realize this, the future of that. And midway through these conversations,

he'll say to them, by the way, you know, you do realize I'm a low-tax Tory, basically making his

pitch. Now, do you see that as a leadership pitch? Or do you see that as a chancellor

simply trying to reassure his party to stay with the general project. You can look at it one way or another.

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