Boris says sorry. Is it enough?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Katy Balls speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth.
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| 0:18.2 | Hello and welcome to Coffee How's Shots, |
| 0:20.0 | Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Versaif |
| 0:25.2 | and Isvah Hardman. Today Boris Johnson has had to face the music, |
| 0:29.4 | it's the first time since he was issued a fixed-poundary notice, |
| 0:32.6 | along with his wife, Carrie Johnson and the Chancellor of Rishisunak, |
| 0:36.1 | and that he has faced his MPs in the Chamber Boris Johnson gave an update |
| 0:40.8 | in which he referenced his partygate fine. James will get the questions that followed, |
| 0:46.2 | but just in terms of Boris Johnson's original statement, |
| 0:49.2 | it didn't dominate too much of what he was saying, did it? |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, he began with his apology for the fine, for what had happened, |
| 0:59.4 | and then he moved very quickly onto Ukraine, which also meant that this gave Tory MPs something |
| 1:05.9 | else to talk about. They didn't have to relentlessly talk about the fact that their Prime Minister |
| 1:10.0 | had been fined for breaking the rules that his government had introduced. |
| 1:14.8 | That obviously drew some of the sting from it because there was something else |
| 1:19.3 | that they could talk about. Now, Keir Starmer talked solely about the Prime Minister's behaviour |
| 1:25.1 | and his fine. It was one of those comments performances, which was directed straight |
| 1:30.8 | at the Tory ventures, essentially, saying, what are you going to do about this? |
| 1:34.9 | The responsibility is on you, and the commons listened to it in very kind of harsh tones. |
| 1:41.2 | There was not very much Tory heckling, which is always a sign that Tory MPs are slightly uncomfortable, |
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