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Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffeehouse Shots. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined

by James Forsyford Fraser Nelson. And we are looking back at a year of Boris Johnson. Yes, he's been

in Downing Street for longer, but it's a year to the day since Boris Johnson won a majority of 80.

And he promised several things. Here's a clip of his victory speech.

We should focus above all on the NHS. That simple and beautiful idea that represents the best of our country.

As well as providing better schools, safer streets, and in the

next few weeks and months we will be bringing forward proposals to transform this country

with better infrastructure, better education, better technology. And if you ask yourselves, what is

this new government going to do? What is he going to do with the extraordinary majority? I will

tell you that is what we are going to do.

We are going to unite and level up.

James, when Boris Johnson won that majority of 80, quite quickly went to Sedgefield.

There was a big effort to suggest that the Tories were the new centre ground,

thanks to all their victories in the so-called Red Wall.

But I suppose, and this is to a degree overdone,

but few could have predicted how quickly that would have to take a back seat.

So what do you think were the Halcyon days of Boris Johnson's 80 majority victory?

How long did that last?

I don't think anyone would have dared predict in the campaign that if you voted for Boris Johnson, a plague would descend upon the land

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