Beginning Of The End?
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What next for Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he faces calls to resign? While his cabinet rallies around him, Scottish Conservatives including leader Douglas Ross and some Tory backbenchers have called on the Prime Minister to tender his resignation. After admitting to attending a drinks party during the 2020 lockdown, Boris Johnson has asked for the results of civil servant Sue Gray's inquiry to be released before decisions are made by his party, but as rows erupt amongst his own MPs and MSPs, plus with opposition parties calling on him to step down, will he face a motion of no confidence and a potential end to his time in Number 10?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.7 | that brings you an inside look at the biggest stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.5 | It's |
| 0:20.8 | 28 minutes past two on |
| 0:22.8 | Thursday the 13th of January. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based |
| 0:26.7 | in Glasgow and today I'm joined by |
| 0:28.6 | I'm Raji Psyndu, a journalist |
| 0:30.6 | based in Westminster. I'm Phil Sim, |
| 0:33.1 | a journalist normally based at the Scottish Parliament |
| 0:34.9 | today in my house. |
| 0:36.8 | Hi, Lindsay Pughes, a journalist also normally based at the Scottish Parliament, but I'm in my car. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm good to hear. I am Nick Erdley, also a journalist, in the Houses of Parliament today. |
| 0:50.5 | Look at these exotic locations that we're bringing you your first political of 2022 from |
| 0:57.0 | Lindsay I'm sure your car's lovely but depends on the car it's right okay I think we can everybody can probably guess why why you're coming from where you're coming from next we'll get to all of that over the next half an hour but Lindsay explain yourself you're. You're in your car. What's going on? |
| 1:11.4 | Well, yeah. |
| 1:12.0 | So I'm in my car, which is parked outside my house. |
| 1:14.9 | And the reason why I'm in the car is because my neighbours are having some construction work done |
| 1:18.5 | and it's very, very noisy. |
| 1:20.0 | So I'm taking refuge in the car. |
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