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Coffee House Shots

Boris resigns. What next?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

After fighting words briefed out to the papers overnight, this morning, the Prime Minister has finally decided to resign. A statement is expected today. On the episode, Katy Balls discusses with Isabel Hardman and Fraser Nelson whether he should have gone sooner (and the implications for the post-politics speaking circuit) and the leadership race that is about to start.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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0:00.0

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0:16.7

Hello and welcome to Coffee Have Shots,

0:18.4

Aspectators Daily and these days more than daily politics podcast.

0:22.6

I'm Katie Fools and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Isvah Hardman,

0:26.0

and we've had the news that the Prime Minister is to resign.

0:29.4

Isvah, can you just bring us up to date because we've had a live blog going yesterday,

0:33.8

it's had to run into today, it posed going off around midnight,

0:36.5

because the resignations have just not stopped.

0:39.6

But yet, it has now reached the point where the Prime Minister has decided to leave.

0:44.0

Yes, so I think it was safe to sleep at about 2am last night,

0:47.2

and then all started up again at about six with ministers continuing to resign.

0:51.5

The decisive moment was when Nadim Zahawi,

0:55.1

who has been Chancellor for I think it's 33 hours,

0:58.7

36 hours, placed Boris Johnson in checkmate by publishing a letter on treasury-headed

1:05.9

note papers to making clear that he hadn't resigned.

1:08.6

Calling on the Prime Minister to quit saying that he had made this advice

1:13.9

private initially, Prime Minister last night in number 10, as we know,

1:18.6

but that the Prime Minister had ignored this advice,

1:20.7

so he was making it public, but because he wasn't resigning,

1:23.8

what he was effectively saying was, look, I'm not going to collapse your government,

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