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Coffee House Shots

How much has the Williamson row damaged Rishi Sunak?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Though Gavin Williamson has now resigned, Rishi Sunak still had to fend off a number of questions on the disgraced minister at today's Prime Minister's Questions. How much damage has the row done to the Prime Minister? Cindy Yu talks to James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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0:00.0

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0:16.0

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

0:19.9

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman.

0:23.6

So today when Rishi Sunak faced up against Keir Starmer Prime Minister's questions,

0:27.9

again he had to talk about Gavin Williamson, this is what he had to say.

0:30.9

Mr Speaker, the member for South Staffordshire told A Civil Servant to slit their throat.

0:38.0

How does the Prime Minister think the victim of that bullying felt when he expressed great sadness

0:45.3

at his resignation?

0:46.3

Mr Speaker, the behaviour complained of was unacceptable and it is absolutely right that the right honourable

1:01.9

gentleman has resigned. For the record, I did not know about any of the specific concerns relating

1:09.8

to his conduct as Secretary of State or Chief Whip.

1:15.1

James, this office becomes as Gavin Williamson has now resigned as of Tuesday night.

1:20.4

Has this problem been as bad as it could have been for Rishi Sunak given that Gavin Williamson

1:24.6

has resigned or has the damage already done?

1:26.7

I think As Isabel said in her blog on PMQs, it would obviously have been worse for Rishi Sunak

1:34.5

today if Gavin Williamson had still been impoverished.

1:38.2

The fact that Gavin Williamson had resigned slightly changed the dynamic but

1:41.4

Kirstal must still went to town saying that Rishi Sunak had been weak in appointing him

1:46.7

that showed that he couldn't stand up to bullies and then I think in a slightly more kind of

1:50.8

stretch argument, he basically then tried to argue but the reason the windfall tax was structured

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