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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

How did Boris Johnson end up in No 10?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 151 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

Look at him go. He's a quality striker. No, not him. The electrician fixing those lights.

0:05.5

Wow. Is he? Yes, he uses QuickBooks to prepare for self-assessment. This is truly game-changing.

0:12.9

Use QuickBooks year-round to ensure your income tax return is shock-free. That's how you business

0:18.2

differently. Into its QuickBooks. Three minutes after ten is the time.

0:22.2

Do you know, I nearly began then with an opening that would have echoed slightly Holly Willoughby

0:26.9

on the telly a week or two ago.

0:28.9

But I wouldn't have been doing it tongue in cheek.

0:30.8

I almost did something like, take a deep breath.

0:33.9

Are you okay?

0:34.7

And I couldn't quite remember why that would have sounded so odd in the

0:38.6

current. And then I remembered, of course, that it would have, you'd have thought that I was

0:41.4

poking fun at her when I genuinely wasn't. I think it is a morning to take a deep breath. Listen,

0:46.4

we'll approach it as if it had happened an hour ago. We've had most of Friday, Saturday and

0:51.3

Sunday to absorb the, I think, inevitable collapse of Boris Johnson,

0:58.1

whether or not it is the final collapse, only time we'll tell. But we did Friday's show,

1:02.7

actually, quite premonitionally. Is that a word? Premonitionally? What would be a better word than

1:07.8

premonitionally? Friday's show was quite prescient. There you go.

1:11.4

Because we kind of talked about Boris Johnson and Donald Trump as if both had reached the end of their road.

1:16.5

I was working on the presumption that the Privileges Committee would set fire to his latest ludicrous attempts to evade reality and the truth.

1:25.4

And then sooner than anyone expected they did. He got Butchers at the truth. And then sooner than anyone accepted, expected they did. He got butchers at the

1:30.5

report. I'm told it's about a 20-day suspension that he would have faced. And brave Sir Boris ran

1:36.4

away, as he always does, like all cowards, always running away. And as I've told you on approximately

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