Has Nadine Dorries lost the plot?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 11 November 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This week Nadine Dorries’s new book The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson has been published, and it has ruffled some feathers in Westminster. In it, she claims there was a plot orchestrated by a secret cabal of back room advisors, politicians and individuals in the media to overthrow Boris Johnson. Just what is ‘the movement’?

James Heale speaks to Fraser Nelson and Christopher Howse, assistant editor at the Telegraph.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson.

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management,
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0:13.2	with confidence.
0:18.2	Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.
0:21.3	I'm James Heel and I'm J. J.
0:24.0	J.
0:26.0	J.
0:28.0	Jainsh Heel's, the Telegraph Assistant Editor and one of the Spectators' regular stuntmen as well.
0:30.0	Now, we'll start by talking about this book that all of Westminster is talking about which is Nadine Doris the plot
0:36.2	Christopher you've had the honor of reviewing it for
0:39.7	H.M. Delhi Telegraph. What did you make of this book?
0:43.6	It's very difficult to make it out at all, actually.
0:46.0	It's very much like a dream recollected in waking hours.
0:51.0	And for a bit, it seems to make sense but then in recollection it's
0:56.2	overheated and a peculiar illogical nebulous thing and it comes in slices from informants with made-up names to
1:07.8	protect them and you think you're going to learn something new but you find just another slice of the same thing
1:14.5	which is to say that Boris Johnson was brought down not by any political mistakes or
1:21.2	by events but by a plot of something she called to call
1:25.0	the events, but by a plot of something she calls the movement,
1:26.0	which she says has been going for 40 years,
1:28.0	and chooses who's going to be prime minister
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