Could Boris be toppled by accident?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Cindy Yu, Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management, |
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| 0:21.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee Harshots, the spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James LaSive and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:28.6 | The Secret Report was released last week when there didn't seem to be an immediate action, |
| 0:32.7 | but over the weekend there seems to have been a bit more trickling of letters going into |
| 0:36.8 | the Graeme Brady. James, can you talk us through this because there wasn't much of a reaction |
| 0:41.0 | when the Grey Report hit last week but you write in your column for the upcoming issue of the |
| 0:45.2 | spectator that movement is happening behind the scenes? So what Boris Johnson doesn't face |
| 0:51.3 | is a kind of organized attempt to topple him. Over the weekend I got in touch with a few people |
| 0:56.8 | who have written letters and it seemed very, they hadn't spoken to others, they just made their |
| 1:02.0 | own mind up and you see this in the type of people who are coming out. This is not a |
| 1:07.6 | ideologically driven group, you know, so you've got Bob Neill, a kind of lawyer who campaign |
| 1:12.8 | for a main and Steve Baker is a libertarian brexeter. This makes it very difficult to guess where |
| 1:17.6 | the next letter is coming from for number 10 because this discontent spangs always the party |
| 1:24.0 | and all intakes. And so I think there is now a growing chance that you at some point can almost |
| 1:31.6 | accidentally hit the 54 letters now. Maybe that is after these two bi-lections in Wakefield and |
| 1:37.9 | Tippettin and Horneton, you know, if the Tories lose both of those, I think that could spook a |
| 1:41.6 | lot of Tory MPs, particularly Wakefield because that would be a kind of red wall seat going back |
| 1:47.7 | to Labour. Tippettin and Horneton because that is like one of these, a bit like Northropshire, |
| 1:52.0 | it's a very safe rural Tory seat or whatever Lib Dems would have come from nowhere to take it, |
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