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🗓️ 7 July 2022
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They say a week’s a long time in politics, but for Boris Johnson, the past 24 hours must have felt like an eternity. A bruising PMQs, a blistering Liaison Committee and over 50 ministerial resignations, the most in modern history. To unpack the latest news and analysis, and to try and understand what’s next, Associate Editor Camilla Tominey is joined in the studio with Associate Editor Gordon Rayner and down the line with Telegraph leader writer, Tim Stanley.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of Choppers Politics, your weekly |
0:06.3 | wander through Westminster and beyond. As you can already tell I am not |
0:10.2 | associate editor Christopher Hope who is resting up in bed with his first bout of COVID, but |
0:15.2 | Associate Editor Camilla Tomini. |
0:17.5 | They say a week's a long time in politics, but for Juarez Johnson, the last 24 hours must have felt |
0:22.2 | like an eternity. a bruising PMQs, a blistering |
0:26.1 | liaison committee and over 50 ministerial resignations the most in modern history. |
0:31.6 | To unpack the latest news and analysis and to try to |
0:34.0 | understand what's next I'm joined in the studio with associate editor Gordon Rayna |
0:38.0 | and down the line with telegraph leader writer Tim Stanley and the latest |
0:42.0 | update Boris Johnson will be resigning today. |
0:45.0 | Well, what are 24 hours it's been chaps? Gordon perhaps you'd like to sum up what's |
0:50.0 | been happening since yesterday. Well what a 48 hours and how long have we got is |
0:56.7 | this a three hour podcast? Sadly not. Just a quick a quick summation okay is |
1:01.5 | probably in order. |
1:03.0 | Well, obviously we started off with Rishizunak and Sajid Javid resigning within minutes of each other on Tuesday night. |
1:11.6 | There was about another 10 or 12 ministers followed them that day. Boris Johnson |
1:16.5 | didn't take the hint. He had a quick reshuffle made Nadim Zahawi, his Chancellor and |
1:22.0 | Michelle Donnellan Education Secretary. |
1:25.5 | That wasn't enough for most of the, well a lot of the government and another several dozen people resigned over the course of Wednesday. |
1:35.6 | I think the latest count were above 50 ministerial resignations. |
1:40.6 | We had the extraordinary site of a delegation of cabinet ministers going |
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