Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a weekly podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host Alan Tolhurst, and each week I'll be taking an in-depth look at the biggest political

stories with fellow politics home reporters and special guests from across Westminster.

It's been another wild week in Parliament with a publication of the Fulls-Sugaray report

into Downing Street parties during lockdown,

prompting a number of Tory MPs took off Boris Johnson to resign.

That was swiftly followed by a U-turn by Rishi Sunak

on a windfall tax, as the Chancellor announced a huge

new financial package to deal with the cost of living crisis.

But the Prime Minister in his party are still struggling at the polls after a poor performance at this month's local elections.

With two crucial by-elections in Wakefield and Tiverton next month, the Tories are in danger of losing both, which could lead to further calls on Johnson to be replaced.

To discuss all that and more, this week I'm delighted to say, myself and politics home colleague Eleanor Langford are joined by the leader of the liberal democrats and former cabinet minister sir Ed davy

So starting with you Ed obviously we had the full Sue Gray report on Wednesday

What were your kind of first thoughts when you read through all kind of the the full report and saw the pictures and also what did you feel of the Prime Minister's response in the Commons as well?

Well, I think the Sue Gray report confirmed what the British people knew,

that the Prime Minister had broken the law,

that he and his team were breaking the law for many times during the lockdown, sadly,

and that he had misled Parliament. That's the confirmation

that I got from the report. In terms of the debate and the statement, what was interesting was the

quite muted response from the conservative backbenchers. And we saw a lot of conservative MPs

leaving very quickly. They were almost too embarrassed to listen to the Prime Minister

with his faux apologies and, you know, his wriggling. They kind of ran out of Tory MPs, support

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