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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Harbman and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Katie Balls.

Well, we've had a dramatic result overnight in the North

Shropshire by-election. Not only have the Lib Dems managed to take the seat from the Conservatives,

they've managed to overturn a majority of nearly 23,000 votes and get their own majority of

nearly 6,000 votes. Helen Morgan, the victorious Liberal Democrat candidate, thanked Labour voters for

voting tactically. Here's what she said. And let me say specifically to all those Labour

supporters who lent their votes today, thank you. You have shown tonight that together we can

defeat the Conservatives, not with deals behind closed doors, but with common sense at the ballot books.

Katie Balls, how serious is this for Boris Johnson?

I think it ultimately caps off a really bad four weeks just over a month now for Boris Johnson.

That began really with the Owen Patterson Sleas and clearly this by-election only came to happen because of

that sleaze scandal, the fact that number 10 ultimately came up with a botched attempt to rewrite

standard rules to spare Owen Patterson from a recommend and suspension over lobbying breach and also

in the process to change standards for MPs going forward. That failed.

But after that event, you saw Boris Johnson start to lose a lot of goodwill with his own MPs,

lots of questions over the Downing Street operation. And generally, since then, we've seen

public support for the Conservatives fall and also Boris Johnson's own approval ratings.

Now, there have been so many things that have happened in the past four weeks. I think it's hard

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