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Coffee House Shots

Boris warned as Tory MPs re-elect Brady

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Tory MPs today re-elected Graham Brady as chair of the 1922 Committee - the group that represents backbench Conservatives to the government. Brady, who has voted against the government's coronavirus laws, was standing against Heather Wheeler, who was seen as a candidate more aligned to No. 10. Despite having an 80-seat majority, Boris has been warned. Katy Balls speaks to James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman.

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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots and Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

0:28.3

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Islava Hardman.

0:32.1

And today we found out the result of the 1922 elections.

0:36.4

James, talk us through what was at stake and who came out

0:39.5

triumphant. So there were two candidates, Graham Brady, who's been the chair of it since 2010,

0:44.8

and has been, I think, fair to say, an outspoken critic of the government on its approach to

0:49.3

COVID and lockdown. And Hever Wheeler, who's a former government minister and a former whip. And it was

0:55.0

kind of Heverweilers, those people supporting Heverweiler, the kind of arguments they were making

0:59.6

to Tory MPs, wouldn't it be better to have someone who pursues that arguments a bit more

1:03.5

quietly with number 10 behind closed doors rather than doing so, so publicly? But I think what

1:10.2

is interesting about Graham Brady's victory

1:11.9

is it shows that Tory backbench are not in a particularly deferential mood to number 10.

1:16.3

They've just re-elected someone as essentially their shop steward

1:19.5

who has voted against the government multiple times on COVID legislation.

1:24.4

And I've been struck asking Tory MPs in the last few weeks,

1:27.4

who they're

1:27.9

going to vote for. There is a sense that the kind of case for electing Brady is that there will need

1:33.3

to be some tough and difficult messages given to number 10 this autumn. And they know that he's kind of

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