Welcome to the Eurointelligence podcast. I'm Wolfgang Munchau and with me are Susanne Munchank and Jack Smith.

Now, today we would like to talk essentially about British issues, starting with the confidence vote in Boris Johnson at the beginning of this week and where the UK is now.

Now, we were, you know, among the few, you know, we're proud to say this year,

who predicted that Johnson will survive because we felt that in the end,

the tourists didn't have an obvious alternative leader.

And a rebellion that doesn't have an obvious political motivation

would have faced much greater hurdles to succeed

than one where there was an obvious alternative political plan.

And the criticism of Johnson was not the fact that he was politically on the one side

or the other side of the Tory party because he isn't.

He is on pretty much his side,

but not there isn't a particularly clear side of which he's on. The criticism was obviously

related to his behavior and the most obvious candidates, at least one of the most obvious

candidates that could replace him, you know, was subject to very similar behavior. Several

cabinet ministers was subject to very similar behavior. Several cabinet ministers were subject to very similar behavior.

And many of the rebels distrusted each other more than the distrusted Johnson.

So the rebellion is over.

We can say so much.

But this is not the end of the story.

This is not the end, the political end of the story.

Jack, what do you think

is going to happen going forward? Yeah. So, I mean, the first thing to say about that just on the

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