Blue on Blue

Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The gloves are off when it comes to Conservatives voicing their thoughts on their leader this week, so Christopher Hope invites both sides of the argument to the Red Lion to duke it out (with words, that is).

Northern Ireland Minister and long-time Johnson ally, Conor Burns MP, makes his case in defence of the Prime Minister, letting listeners know that Boris Johnson isn't someone to give up lightly. While in the other corner of the ring, Conservative Home founder Tim Montgomerie bemoans the lack of ambition he sees in government, and accuses Boris Johnson of having less vision than Gordon Brown...

Plus, veteran broadcaster Alastair Stewart, on why he thinks the 'mainstream media' is less than impartial when it comes to Boris Johnson, and Charles Lewington, former Head of Communications for the Tories in the 1990s, on why comparisons to Sir John Major's government are misplaced.

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0:00.0	Coming up on choppers politics.
0:04.0	In terms of big ideas for the country, I'd say that Boris Johnson in ways worse than Gordon Brown.
0:09.0	Gordon Brown did actually want to do a few big things on the economy.
0:12.0	I really don't know as someone who follows politics
0:15.2	incredibly closely what Boris Johnson's really big idea is.
0:19.6	The dust is settling around the Prime Minister, but is it the calm before the storm?
0:27.0	I'm Christopher Hope, associate editor for politics at the Daily Telegraph, and this is Chopper's Politics. And today I have a
0:35.8	tour de force of impassioned guests for you listeners. Each one determined have their
0:41.3	say about the future of Boris Johnson and his leadership.
0:46.2	Later we'll hear from broadcasting legend Alice Stewart who thinks the so-called
0:51.6	mainstream media have it in for the PM,
0:55.2	and Charles Lewington, a former director of communications for the Tories in the 1990s
1:01.2	on why it's wrong to draw parallels between Boris Johnson's current
1:05.9	predicament and John Major. But first, this week has seen MPs and Conservative
1:12.3	commentators squaring up to give their tuppence on whether
1:16.0	the PMs days are numbered.
1:18.3	As if we thought we'd bring that fight to chopper's politics.
1:22.4	In the blue corner, we have Conservative commentator and former aides of Boris Johnson, Tim Montgomery.
1:30.3	And in the other slightly different shade of blue corner, we have one of Burrows Johnson's closest allies.
1:37.0	I find it utterly bizarre that a small number of MPs think that they can overrule that vote of 14 million people.
1:46.7	It's quite something that they think they can do that.
1:49.7	No, not that one, but Northern Ireland Minister Connor Burns, MP for Bormuth West, and one of Boris Johnson's
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