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

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Forsyth.

As September approaches, Remainer MPs are plotting their parliamentary assault on Boris Johnson.

Katie, what's their latest plan?

So there's a lot of talk this week of a government of national unity.

And this is the idea that you can talk about various archaic procedures that you could find precedents. But one clear

way in their mind to stop no deal would be to bring the government down in a vote of no confidence

in this case. And then there'd be two weeks for a new government

to be formed and then this time they would install a government of national unity now that would be

a government made up a cross-party group of MPs and I think that in their minds of lots of people

suggesting this the type of person who lead it wouldn't be someone like Jeremy Corbyn. You'd be thinking about Kirstama, Hillary Ben, maybe Dominic Grieve.

Is that kind of ilk, I think, that we're talking about?

And then what would this government achieve?

Now, I think that even advocates for this plan admit that this group would probably have little in common when it came to governing in general,

but what they would all agree would be the need to stop no deal, and therefore they would be

able to, and as a former letter-writing government, by which point they would send a request to

extend Article 50 and prevent no deal. Now, there is a catch here, or potential catch,

because number 10, or least the current

inhabitants of number 10, dispute that this would actually work because Boris Johnson was simply

refused to resign. So if you brought down the government, the expectation would be that

Boris Johnson would then say, well, you'd have no confidence in me. I know quit as Prime Minister.

What we believe Dominic Cummings, his senior advisor, has been telling people is,

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