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Is Boris in trouble over No.10's Christmas party?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer went on the attack today at PMQs. The controversy over last years Christmas party resurfaced, with accusations that No.10 breached lockdown rules. He then went on to criticise the government's new hospitals program. 

Boris was dealt another blow, this time from his own side. Tory MPs are in uproar about the threats of growing restrictions. Yesterday, two votes in the commons over the new Covid rules led to another rebellion.

'40 is considered the problematic number for a rebellion. That second vote was very close to that' - Isabel Hardman.

A lot of MPs are worried the UK will just bounce in and out of these restrictions endlessly. But when the government is juggling both the Delta and the Omicron variant, can they hold off from a lockdown forever?

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Hello and welcome to copy house shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

0:32.6

I'm Katie Bors and I'm joined by James Fyceph and Isva Hardman.

0:36.6

Today, Kirstam has faced Boris Johnson at Prime Minister's I'm Katie Bors and I'm joined by James Fyceph and Issaver Hardman.

0:42.1

Today, Kirstam has faced Boris Johnson at Prime Minister's questions.

0:45.1

Isabel talk us through his two methods of attack.

0:53.4

So first he talked about the mirror front page story that last year during lockdown restrictions,

1:00.1

there was a party that the Prime Minister had in Downing Street that, according to the mirror, broke the rules.

1:03.5

Downing Street, say no rules were broken, but hasn't denied that there was a party.

1:13.1

So Keir Stama led on that and basically accused the Prime Minister of having one rule for the public and then not caring about the rules for himself.

1:15.4

Then he moved on to the government's 40 new hospitals programme,

1:19.9

which I think all of us have probably had conversations with Tory MPs

1:23.5

where they've laughed about the idea of it being 40 new hospitals because it isn't.

1:28.0

And Kirstama didn't actually lead on that particular point.

1:31.6

He led on the fact that this has been given a red flag by the Treasury and Cabinet Office

1:37.2

because it's currently as a programme undeliverable.

1:41.5

And Boris Johnson denied that, whereas the treasurer and cabinet office haven't,

1:45.9

so Kirstama pinned him down a little bit on that. And then he moved on to saying,

1:50.2

until now, I thought I knew what a hospital was. But aha, here's a leaked document that admits

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