Has Boris won back Tory MPs?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Also on the podcast, there is a growing divide within the Conservative party between those who want a windfall tax and those that don't. But where does Boris stand on this?
All to be discussed as Katy Balls speaks to James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson.
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| 0:16.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee Hair Shots, Inspectorators' Daily Politics podcast. I'm Katie Pooves, |
| 0:21.6 | and I'm joined by James, the Simon Fraser Nelson, and also in the background |
| 0:24.9 | to Spectator Wine Lounge, which you may pick up traces of. |
| 0:28.9 | There, we don't have any wine in front of us at the moment. |
| 0:30.9 | It's already quite noisy. They haven't started drinking yet. |
| 0:33.1 | Actually, I don't know. We don't even have any coffee. |
| 0:34.7 | You've got, I don't know. |
| 0:35.8 | It's called Coffee, yeah. |
| 0:37.3 | It only has even your coffee cup. |
| 0:39.2 | But to the agenda, it is the day after the police said they included their investigation into party |
| 0:45.7 | gate. In their investigation, there was only one fine to Boris Johnson, |
| 0:50.0 | and ultimately there was a fine over an event with birthday cake. |
| 0:53.5 | We're now expecting the publication of Sue Gray's report as early as next week. |
| 0:57.9 | Fraser, where do you think the mood in the Tory party is? Do you think it's one of a relief at the |
| 1:01.5 | moment, or do you think it's some concern, so they're not quite out of the words yet? |
| 1:04.9 | It's split, so I think those who wanted Boris Johnson gone are dismayed. |
| 1:08.6 | We found some of them Charles Walker yesterday, for example, had to take back his call for |
| 1:13.6 | Boris Johnson's resignation, so he was out there saying that he thought about it carefully, |
| 1:18.0 | and he now decided to, Boris should unresign. Here's what he had to say. |
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