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Hello and welcome to Goofy Hush Hots. It is 9 p.m and the Prime Minister is not

resigning tonight. Boris Rodson had a delegation of cabinet ministers come to see him.

There is some dispute about what they told him, but I think several of them did say to him that

they thought it was time for him to go. But Boris Rodson did not heed that advice. Instead,

he seems determined to fight on, and that means that we are lightly heading to a no-confidence

ballot on Tuesday. Why? Because earlier today, the 1922 committee announced they were bringing

forward their elections, but the current executive didn't feel that had the mandate to decide on

a rule change. Instead, there would be elections of fresh executive who would then meet on Monday

and decide on the rule change. The expectation given the mood among Tory MPs is they will be

heavily in favour of a rule change, and then the ballot could happen as early as Tuesday.

Is about why is the Prime Minister putting himself through this ballot?

It really has been a bizarre day where we have all been trying to understand the Prime Minister's

mindset. I think the weirdest moment for me was when he was at the liaison committee earlier talking

about the fertiliser round table that he is convening, suggesting that he was just in a run of the

mill we think about granular problems, which are quite literally granular problems when it comes

to fertiliser. And I think there are two things that are driving him now. One is, sort of hope

against hope that something might turn up, and that things might change in a few days' time.

Maybe Durham Police will find Keir Starmer. And the second is the sort of, I'm not going to go out

with a whim, but I'm not going to be the one who says, all right, okay, fine, I get it, I'm going,

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