Has Tory sleaze hit a new low?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:16.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, a spectator's daily politics podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James O'Sive and Iswell Hart. |
| 0:24.1 | So, late last night, a member of the government, the Deputy Chief Whip, in fact, |
| 0:27.9 | Chris Pincher resigned from his role in the most unsavory circumstances. |
| 0:31.9 | It's about, tell us what we know. |
| 0:35.5 | So, it was a story in the Sun that Deputy Chief Whip had resigned in a letter to the Prime |
| 0:43.5 | Minister, confessing that he had, I'll read the letter, open with, dear Prime Minister, |
| 0:49.8 | last night I drank far too much, I've embarrassed myself and other people, which is the last |
| 0:55.2 | thing I want to do and I apologise to those concerned. Now, what that embarrassing behaviour |
| 1:03.2 | entailed was that he allegedly groped to men drunkenly at the Colton Club on Wednesday night |
| 1:11.6 | and, according to one witness quoted by a political playbook, he was clearly trying to seduce several |
| 1:21.1 | young men. Now, one of the things that I think that there's a number of significant things here |
| 1:26.6 | and we can talk about why conservatives, why MPs continue to behave in this way, but one thing I |
| 1:35.0 | think has changed is that a number of MPs who were present were horrified by the way he'd behaved |
| 1:41.2 | and complained to the Whip's office and I think this is a sign of a shift in the way that MPs |
| 1:48.2 | respond to other MPs behaviour and we saw that with the Neil Parrish scandal as well, which |
| 1:54.4 | was triggered by two MPs standing up in a meeting and saying, I've seen someone watching pornography |
| 2:00.1 | in the House of Commons Chamber and I think that's wrong and I think a few years ago and this is |
| 2:06.4 | appears to be the case for a number of MPs, you'd have names of people who were known to |
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