Are the Conservatives stuck with Boris Johnson?

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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As MPs debate the fallout from partygate, Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Andrew Marr, political editor, and Freddie Hayward, political reporter, to discuss why Boris Johnson may still be safe as PM and the opinions of Conservatives about their leader.

Then in a special section on Northern Ireland, Ailbhe Rea reports from Belfast on what is becoming a very tense Stormont election.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anouche.
0:02.8	Hi, I'm Andrew.
0:04.0	Hi, and I'm Freddie.
0:05.2	And on today's episode of the New Statesman podcast,
0:07.6	we'll be discussing the latest in partygate.
0:10.0	And in a special, I ask Alva,
0:12.3	we discuss the upcoming Northern Ireland Assembly election.
0:22.5	So it's a fast-moving day today in Westminster,
0:25.9	and we actually recorded this episode of the New Statesman podcast
0:29.2	on Thursday morning ahead of MPs debating and voting
0:32.4	on an inquiry into whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament
0:35.3	over partygate and ahead of the government's decision
0:38.2	to you turn on opposing Labour's motion
0:40.8	after originally planning to wreck it.
0:43.0	So I started by asking Andrew what the government's plan was
0:46.2	for getting past partygate.
0:47.9	A big guess, Anouche, but I think we will look back in months ahead
0:51.6	and say this was the week when the Conservative Party essentially
0:55.1	decided that Boris Johnson was going to get away with it.
0:58.0	This is that's what's really going on.
0:59.7	And it's a mixture of the war and his competitive performances
1:03.6	in the commons and a mixture of, in a sense,
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