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

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyfe and the Mail on Sunday columnist Dan Hodges.

Now, it's beginning to look inevitable that Boris Johnson is going to be crowned the next Prime Minister in two weeks' time. But what of how he will govern? As ministers jostle

and non-ministers to be in his cabinet, there are other factions competing for his approval.

It's been predicted that Boris Johnson will have more of a court than his predecessors for groups

of courtiers offering rival advice. He will listen to these groups and play them off. So which

groups are vying for Johnson's ear? Now, I've written this week on Coffeehouse about this and I count

eight, but I'm sure my guest today will be able to add some of their own but just to run

through them we have the old retainers and these are the old time parliamentary supporters of

Boris Johnson figures like ben Wallace and Nigel Adams Jake Barry these are supporters he'd been

with him since 2016 and when he didn't have such luck with his Tory leadership campaign and

have stuck through him through thick and thin.

We have the new kids on the block.

That's people like Gavin Williamson, James Wharton, who've come for the 2019 effort.

There's also the City Hall group, people who were around Boris Johnson and he was mayor of London,

and we expect to have a prominent role if he takes number 10,

Will Walden, Sir Eddie Lister.

Then there's the European Research Group, spoken a lot many times on coffee house shots,

figures like Jacob Rees-Mogg, Mark Francois, who want to see their Brexit delivered.

There's team vote leave, those Boris Johnson knows from the EU referendum campaign.

There are the eco-royers, as we could call them, Carrie Simmons, Zach Goldsmith, Ben Elliott.

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