They're calling it the Cash for Cushion Scandal.

How did a project to spruce up the Prime Minister's flat

turn into a scandal that's in Gulf Number 10?

Things that gather people into trouble he seems to escape from.

But of these various different problems that he faces,

the one with the potential to have the most serious impact is the flat.

Formal investigations have now been launched, accusations leveled and denied.

But could the ongoing spate of revelations derail Boris Johnson's time at Number 10?

He goes on and on, Mr. Speaker, about wallpaper when, as I've told him,

umpteen times now, I pay free.

Mr. Speaker normally when people don't want to incriminate themselves, they get no comment.

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manvin Rana, today, anatomy of a Number 10 political scandal.

My name is Stephen Swinford and I'm the political editor at the Times.

It's been a hell of a week for Stephen Swinford.

Tired, it's broken, you know, standard.

Where are you at the moment?

Just outside on the roof. We've got a little balcony outside our office.

The roof of Parliament isn't normally the safest spot for journalists.

In the original House of Card Series, it was literally their downfall.

But today, it's a safer spot than the Times Westminster office, where the political team has been under siege

with an endless folly of incoming WhatsApp messages and frenzied phone calls.

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