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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the Spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James O'Sythe.

So today Downing Street has put its full support behind Gavin Williamson as a Minister for the

Cabinet Office. This comes after some revelations of messages that he had sent to the then Chief Whip,

Wendy Morton. It's about telling us about what's going on in this round.

Well I think Gavin Williamson is a minister who's had more downing streets say they have full

confidence in than any other member of the government. Given his tenure as Education Secretary

and obviously a previous incarnation as Chief Whip, there have been one or two ups and downs

for Williamson in his career to date. And the latest one is, well there's two complaints. One

is a complaint made by Wendy Morton, former Chief Whip under Liz Truss. He was texting her

complaining that he hadn't been invited to the Queen's funeral and was making what it

being described as sort of failed threats saying there's a price for everything and telling her

that she wasn't doing her job very well. Now he was not the only person at the time who

was saying that Wendy Morton was not doing her job particularly well. But to couple it with

what is essentially the hissing fit of a grown-up man about not being invited something that's

nothing to do with him and sort of threatening her about consequences for that in her job

is if not bullying deeply unprofessional and childish frankly. And then there's a second

complaint which is that from another female minister who says that he made failed threats about

a sensitive matter in her personal life. His allies have said that he actually this was when

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