Did Boris Johnson survive PMQs?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Katy Balls speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth.
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| 0:16.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots Aspectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Casey Balls, and I'm joined by James Asiva and Isabel Hardman. |
| 0:25.0 | So we just had Boris Johnson's first Prime Minister's question since that confidence vote, |
| 0:29.9 | Isabel, how did it go? Surprisingly well for the Prime Minister, actually, |
| 0:34.1 | it was quite bizarre because rather than spending the whole session centering his questions around |
| 0:41.8 | the fact that 41% of the Conservative Parliamentary Party do not have confidence in Boris Johnson, |
| 0:49.4 | Casey Starmer decided to choose a topic that Boris Johnson himself wants to talk about this week, |
| 0:54.3 | which is health. The Downing Street grid has got health in it. The Prime Minister's question |
| 0:59.2 | session was directly followed by a statement by Health Secretary Satya Javid about what he calls |
| 1:05.0 | once in a generation transformation of the NHS, which I think we've all heard before, probably |
| 1:10.4 | once every year. So it enabled Boris Johnson to come up with a lot of lines that were already |
| 1:18.2 | right at the forefront of his mind. Now quite a lot of them weren't particularly true, so the |
| 1:22.8 | government isn't building 48 new hospitals, and it's a recruitment of nurses, for instance, that he |
| 1:28.0 | listed is not actually going to answer the health services workforce crisis, but it just didn't |
| 1:34.2 | highlight Boris Johnson's fundamental weakness, the fundamental lack of confidence and trust |
| 1:39.5 | that his own party have in him. And it was quite bizarre that Casey Starmer missed that chose to |
| 1:45.7 | miss that open goal. Like, wondered whether either it, that he's just a bit flat footage, or that |
| 1:52.6 | he doesn't quite want to try to finish the Prime Minister off yet. James, which she think it is? |
| 1:57.0 | Well, I mean, the kindest explanation is that he thinks that Labour is best served by leaving |
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