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Hello and welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and James Forsyth to ask the key question

of the Conservative Party now ungovernable.

And to start off by looking at the events of Wednesday night, the failed whipping operation

on the fracking vote, and James just talked us through what we saw then and the real problems

now of within the Conservative Party of people basically not being able to obey the party line.

So I think there are remarkable things.

You look at what actually ultimately ended up costing Liz Tross the job.

You're obviously the big things that are unwrapping in the mini budget.

But on Wednesday she had PMQ, so everyone said, oh, what is she going to be able to get through that?

Then she had our home secretary resign, she got through that.

But ultimately, what did for her was the dispute over the whipping arrangements in a vote on fracking

and the question of whether the chief whip had resigned or not.

I mean, it's revealing because it tells you the sort of challenge in terms of leading the Tory party

because the problem essentially there was that Labour very cleverly put down its opposition database

and you were trying to then free-line whip Tory MPs to vote for something that wasn't in line with the Tory manifesto.

You'd have government then added an amendment to it, which essentially rendered the government's policy

because it was fracking but with local consent.

And it defined local consent in such a way that there was nowhere in England for local consent.

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