Boris Johnson: Dead Man Walking?
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
After over 40% of Conservative MPs voted no confidence in the scandal-ridden Prime Minister, is Boris Johnson politically speaking a dead man walking? Is it only a matter before he's booted out of office - perhaps after the upcoming by-election defeats, or after a new investigation by the standards committee found he misled Parliament? Or will he once again escape accountability?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. Boris Johnson, is he toast? |
| 0:11.3 | There was no reason to use that. It was just, I sort of was lying in the kind of video |
| 0:20.9 | sections. Backs didn't, so I just thought we'd use it for the hell of it. Over 40% of |
| 0:24.6 | Tory MPs voted no confidence in the Prime Minister last week. Not the problem is, we |
| 0:29.9 | have done various derivative titles along the lines of, is Boris Johnson toast? Oh, my |
| 0:35.0 | word, is Boris Johnson finished? Surely Boris Johnson can't survive now. He's still |
| 0:38.8 | Prime Minister, so presumably we'll be doing many other shows with this title or along |
| 0:46.2 | these same lines as well. He's still there. He might be the walking dead. We just don't |
| 0:50.8 | know how much emphasis on walking or dead right now. So there are two by elections coming |
| 0:56.2 | up. There's also the investigations by the standards committee in Parliament about |
| 1:00.4 | whether or not he misled Parliament. Some would say, well, if he misled Parliament, he's |
| 1:03.7 | got to go then. Well, I mean, there's lots of things Boris Johnson, you know, in a different |
| 1:08.5 | sort of world in which maybe those rules applied to him, he would have gone long, long ago |
| 1:12.7 | and that hasn't obviously happened. Now, I'll just take a little show today. We've got |
| 1:17.0 | the brilliant Aaron Bestani from Navara, who will join us shortly. First off though, Jacob |
| 1:23.5 | Reece Morgh, Channel 4 News, did a little montage, which I'm going to show you a little |
| 1:28.9 | bit of. This was the fact that Jacob Reece Morgh has come out, obviously, punching, defending |
| 1:33.8 | Boris Johnson and didn't have the same approach to Theresa May. Let's have a little mock. |
| 1:38.4 | If this defeat is worse than Theresa Mayh's, you still think that's fine. One is enough. |
| 1:42.6 | It's a very bad job with Prime Minister. A majority of backbenchers voted against her. |
| 1:47.9 | The Parliamentary Party does have confidence, does have confidence. |
| 1:58.9 | A significant number of colleagues did cast a vote against me, and I've listened to |
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