Is Boris Johnson's Return As Prime Minister Inevitable?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 3 December 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The Tories just suffered their worst defeat in Chester for nearly 200 years - and the polling shows that Rishi Sunak is well and truly sunk. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson has made it clear that he's standing for re-election as a Tory MP. Here's why his return as PM isn't actually far fetched - but even plausible.
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| 0:20.3 | Is Boris Johnson's return as Prime Minister now inevitable? |
| 0:23.3 | Now I know this seems a little far-fetched, so you're going to have to hear me out, |
| 0:27.1 | but any fan of Terminator 2 will know that the T-1000 is the bad guy of the film, |
| 0:35.6 | when you think he was dead, definitely dead this time, he managed to come back and |
| 0:41.6 | do some more terrible things. |
| 0:47.6 | Which brings me to Boris Johnson, the deposed Conservative Prime Minister. |
| 0:52.4 | Now there are two political stories which are worth looking at this week. |
| 0:55.8 | Now the first, the Tories got absolutely butchered in the Chester by election. |
| 1:05.3 | They got their worst result there since 1832. |
| 1:08.2 | That's when the Earl Grey was Prime Minister of the country. |
| 1:11.7 | And only one in five of the male population even had the right to vote. |
| 1:17.6 | Now secondly, Boris Johnson has announced that he's standing again. |
| 1:23.0 | That's in, of course, Oxbridge and South Rise-Lip. |
| 1:27.5 | Now this seems pretty surprising on the face of it. |
| 1:29.7 | Because if you look at the Tories' current polling, |
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