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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Cindy Yu

and I'm joined by Kate Andrews and

Isabel Hardman. So it seems that corruption scandals are a bit like buses. When they come, they come a few

at a time. Now, Isabel, after yesterday's Torrid Day for the Prime Minister, what some people are

calling the worst day in his premiership so far. Another thing has happened today, which is the

curtain scandal, curtain gate, which is the curtain scandal,

curtain gate, which is coming back from earlier in the year. Can you explain what's a new

development today? Yes, so many gates. This is the ongoing row about the Prime Minister's

flat refurbishment. The Conservative Party has been fined £17,800 by the Electoral Commission for failing to accurately report a donation that paid for this refurbishment.

So it's quite complicated, but I will talk you through it as simply as I possibly can.

The allegation now is that Boris Johnson told Lord

Gite, his standards advisor, that he did not know who had paid for the refurbishment earlier this

year. The problem is that the Electoral Commission investigation appears to contradict that.

So he told Lord Geite in May, he did not know who was behind a flat refurbishment until February

2021. But the Electoral Commission today says that in November 2020, Boris Johnson sent a WhatsApp message to Lord Brownlow asking for more money for the number 11, which is his flat, the number 11 flat refurbishment.

And the timeline here is that then on the 30th of November, Lord Brownlow confirmed to a senior party official his intention to cover the

further refurbishment costs personally. Unsurprisingly, Labour has jumped all over this and has

written to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner. And I apologise that everyone in this

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