Knock knock. Who's there?

Boris. Boris who? That's politics.

Well, welcome to the For the Many podcast. Did you know, it seems so long ago that David Davis and Boris Johnson resigned, doesn't it? It seems years ago.

When we talked about what we were

going to do this week and you suggested we did that, I had to take a second thought, because I thought,

oh, that didn't happen this week, did it? So, you're right. But that is, you know, a week is a

long time in politics, Ian, and when you're gone, you're gone. You are absolutely gone. Well, let's just run through what we are going to talk about over the course of the next hour. Jean-Claude Drunker, I mean Juncker we're going to be talking about. A bit of Brexit, bit of Trump, as you might imagine. We'll be talking about the World Cup. I want to talk about the difficulty of writing articles for newspapers, bizarrely, and we might mention wonderful

appearance on Good Morning Britain, too.

Well, let's start off with those two resignations, David Davis and Boris Johnson.

A bit of a surprise, but I was listening back to last week's podcast, and I did actually predict there would be a couple of resignations, so I'm feeling very pleased with myself.

Oh, you're very smug. We sort of were, I think both of us said, although the Friday meeting had probably gone as well as Theresa May could have hoped it would go. It felt as if everything was not exactly

tied down in the way that number 10 had briefed it. So yes, you were absolutely right. And presumably

they, although I view David Davis's resignation and Boris Johnson's resignation slightly

differently. And that's because whilst I'm not a massive fan of either, I feel that David

Davis had a more principled reason for his resignation, having been responsible for the whole process.

And I suspect feeling that he'd been pretty sidelined in the agreement that was reached at

Chequers and therefore feeling he wasn't going to be able to carry on representing the government in the agreement that was reached at checkers, and therefore feeling he wasn't going to be able to carry on

representing the government in the negotiations

and therefore had to step aside.

Boris, it felt to me, just sort of thought,

oh God, somebody's gone, I'm not getting any attention for a while,

what should I do?

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