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Coffee House Shots

Cindy Yu's Sunday Roundup - 12/12/21

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Cindy Yu hosts the highlights from Sunday's political shows, with today's guests including Sir Keir Starmer, Nadhim Zahawi, Steve Baker and Dr Susan Hopkins. 

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0:00.0

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0:35.4

Politics Podcast. I'm Cindy Yu and this is the Sunday

0:38.7

Roundup. If it looked like the Prime Minister was in trouble last week, it seems that was just

0:43.9

the tip of the iceberg. The latest thorn in Boris Johnson's side is a photo splashed in the

0:49.0

daily mirror which shows him hosting a Christmas quiz on the 15th of December of last year.

0:59.0

Andrew Marr interviewed the former director of public prosecutions and now leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Stalmer, and sought his legal opinion on what happened that night.

1:04.0

I think London was in tier two at the time, which said that nobody could be meeting for a non-work purpose more than, I think, two people in a room together.

1:11.9

So given that, was he breaking the law?

1:14.8

Well, it looks as though he was.

1:16.5

And he must have known those other groups were in other rooms in his own building.

1:21.8

And, you know, this is very important because he's damaged his authority.

1:26.7

He is now so weak. his party is so divided,

1:30.1

he can't deliver the leadership that this country needs. And we've got a very important vote

1:35.1

coming up next week, and he can't even discharge the basic functions of government. He's the

1:40.4

worst possible leader at the worst possible time. And you've just said that he broke the law in Downing Street.

1:46.8

Well, it appears.

1:47.6

We would have to look into it, but it's very hard to see how that's compliant with the rules.

1:52.3

Given that, up to now, you have not called for him to resign.

1:55.6

Surely given that, you must now think that he should resign.

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