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Boris is a spectacular rebound merchant, but I'm afraid I think we've gone beyond that.

I wouldn't have said that yesterday if I didn't think that.

Another bad week in the office for Boris Johnson.

So I'll remind him of a quotation altogether too familiar to him of Leo Aemory to Neville Chamberlain.

You have sat there too long for all the good you have done in the name of God go.

I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Soated Editor, and this is Choppers Politics.

Now last week listeners we were wondering whether Boris Johnson might weather the storm of Partygate, but instead this

week has proved that he's still in very choppy waters.

More Conservative MPs have put in letters of no confidence in his leadership, including many from

the 2019 intake, and one Tory MP, Christian Wakeford, the MP for Berry South,

announced to some surprise in House of Commons this week that he is defecting to the Labour Party.

But the moment that really not the wind out of Boris Johnson's sales at Prime Minister's questions

on Wednesday were the words from Exten Batbencher David Davis, which you heard at the beginning of

this episode.

So naturally, I had to ask David Davis to join us at the Red Line

pub to explain himself. David Davis, why did you say that? Well as I said I've

been defending him for months and hoping he would find a way through all of this.

And indeed I wrote in your paper about 10 days ago, you know, this is what you need to do, Boris, you need to do Boris, you need to reset your

philosophy, you know, tell people who are not labor like, all that sort of stuff. And I was hoping and hoping and hoping

and I kept saying, right, okay, we're going we get the Sue Gray and so on and then

yesterday morning it was as late as that I was my morning routine is I get on my

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