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Coffee House Shots

Boris's easy ride at PMQs

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

At PMQs today, Keir Starmer denied Boris Johnson's claims that he wanted the UK to remain in the EU's vaccine procurement scheme. Could a successful domestic rollout, away from the bloc's programme, be seen by the public as an upside of Brexit and cause the opposition problems? Katy Balls speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth.

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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

0:22.2

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsythe and Isabel Hardman.

0:25.7

You just had Prime Minister's questions and it was quite a tense affair.

0:29.3

Isabel, can you talk us really what happened, which was clear for all and then what allegedly happened after?

0:35.2

Yeah, so Kirstama chose to focus on two different topics.

0:38.9

One was on the UK borders and quarantine for arrivals from overseas into the UK.

0:45.8

And the other was on cladding.

0:47.5

And it was during these exchanges between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starma,

0:51.3

that the Prime Minister accused Stama of repeatedly calling for the UK to stay in the European Medicines Agency,

0:58.8

which Stama said was complete nonsense.

1:01.4

And then at the end of the session, there was a point of order from Mark Francois, claiming that he had indeed made this call repeatedly.

1:09.0

And according to the Sun, there was a standoff between Stama and

1:13.9

Johnson outside of the chamber after the session where they continued to argue about whether or not

1:20.7

Stama had called for the UK to stay in the European Medicines Agency. I have to say, I don't think that the session itself was

1:29.2

Sir Keir Stama's strongest, as well as having this argy-bargy over his position on the UK with regards

1:36.3

to the European Medicines Agency. He also really missed a trick when he came to the cladding questions,

1:42.2

because he didn't pull Boris Johnson up on whether the government

1:45.7

was going to guarantee that leaseholders don't have to pay for anything. All he said was that so that

1:50.9

leaseholders can avoid unaffordable bills, which is a very different matter. So really Boris Johnson

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