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How will Boris Johnson respond to the Gray report?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Daily News, News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Sue Gray's report into Downing Street parties during lockdown is set to be released on Wednesday morning. The tone Boris Johnson takes will be vital to his political future. What will he say?

Katy Balls speaks to James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman.

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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots and Spectators Daily Politics podcast.

0:25.2

I'm Katie Bulls and I'm joined by James Forsyff and Israel Hardman.

0:28.8

It is the eve we believe at the party gate report.

0:32.8

James in terms of what we can actually say is still a pretty static picture when it comes to what's

0:38.9

going to be in the report, but you have a situation where we're hearing about what Boris Johnson

0:44.0

said in the meeting and also the BBC has uncovered a chance of some involved in the parties.

0:50.9

Yeah, I think it is a reminder that this story, I mean after Boris Johnson only got one fine

0:56.4

that was fine for what people generally perceive to be as the most innocuous of the events under

1:01.8

investigation. But there was a sense among the allies in the art, he's out of the woods now,

1:07.1

downhill skiing from now on. I mean the way in which his story has fled right back up again,

1:12.4

not just with, as you say, the revelation about picture of Boris Johnson raising a glass

1:16.8

twist of heart and communications chief Lee Kane, but also this BBC panorama documentary talking

1:22.7

about how regularly bins were overflowing with bottles and downing street and people were kind of

1:28.1

sleeping at work. The whole story is going again and I mean the worry for number 10 is that you

1:33.8

are beginning to hear that kind of anger from Tory MPs again and you're not hearing people saying

1:38.8

things like, oh, you know, there's an international crisis right now, there's an inflation crisis,

1:44.0

it's not the right time for this. And I think it makes Boris Johnson's response to this report

1:50.2

more important, you know, can his condition be convincing? He's addressing all Tory MPs on Wednesday

1:57.3

night, we expect in the report Wednesday morning. So we expect there would be PMQs for an

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