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Hello, I'm Alfa and you're listening to The New Statement podcast. On today's episode,

I'm joined by Gavin Barwell, formerly Theresa May's chief of staff in number 10 dining

street, and then you ask us, or more precisely, I ask Stephen about the sudden resignation of

Cressida Dick as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

So I'm really pleased to be joined for today's episode by someone who really is the perfect person

to speak to for this political moment. He was Theresa May's chief of staff in number 10,

and he was by her side to the very end of her premiership before that he was the conservative MP

for Croydon Central from 2010 to 2017, and he's not a conservative peer and also an advisor at

PWC, including the PWC plug because you have a pristine PWC background there, Gavin.

Yeah, great to have you on the podcast. So you were there, as I was saying, for the last days of

May. Does this feel to you like these are the last days of Boris Johnson?

I think that's probably the case, although last days can be drawn out quite a long time,

if you think about Theresa's case, it was probably about six months from when she actually had the

vote of confidence in her leadership that she won to when she finally left number 10. So these

things can take a while to reach their conclusion, but the reason I would answer your question

probably is I think if you look at Boris Johnson's personal polling, somewhere between 16-70%

of people think he should resign, his net approval rating is currently round about the level

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